Kelly Macdonald Quotes
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.
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I'm just not a fan of the gym. In fact, I hate it. I understand loving the feeling you get after working out all those endorphins. But going there? It's the worst.
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To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.
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I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.
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As a means to an end, modelling was good, but I had to distance myself from it when I started working as an actress, because even though I wasn't high-profile, I found in my first write-ups that I'd be referred to as 'model Gemma Chan.'
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We clicked from day one, and I think it's carried over into the season. We're always unselfish ? we make the extra pass and try to win.
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It can get a bit boring working on accents.
