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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Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.
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The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
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'There’s a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn’t have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.'
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I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am, a brown person on stage being quite blunt. I talk about white privilege; I talk about U.S. imperialistic practices; I talk about colonialism. I'm not saying things that are easy for people to laugh at.
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When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.
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It can get a bit boring working on accents.
