Kelly Macdonald Quotes
I thought I might not want to act any more after having a baby. It turns out I still enjoy it.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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Every time you get something, give something away.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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It's really crazy to be 36 years old and to have been doing something for 25 years.
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Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.
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I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.
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Jazz has a tradition that has enriched the culture in America. The intellectualism of it does nothing but make you think on a higher level and make you a better person if you engage in the music and let it do what it does when it is played at its highest level.
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I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.
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You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.
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I thought I might not want to act any more after having a baby. It turns out I still enjoy it.
