Kevin Macdonald Quotes

You can go to places in Africa and Asia and find Marley graffiti. In the slums of Nairobi, you see his lyrics painted on walls, and you realise he has this almost religious significance to the underclass of the world. He's a guy born in a hut with no bed, and now he's probably the most listened-to artist in the world. It's fascinating.

Kevin Macdonald

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WallsWorldYouArtistFindBorn

I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

Jo Brand

LoveFutureBookThinkYouLook

If I get a role, it's because I fought for it.

Jessica Chastain

BecauseGetRoleFought

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

Maude Adams

BecauseTraditionsKnewSmashed

The great thing about working with NPR - and, really, there's like a million of 'em - is all the cool stuff I get to do for the public. Meet the president. Hang out at the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas. Drink a $10,000 martini.

John Ridley

GreatCoolVegasMeetDrinkOut

I've always been a very self-aware person.

Troy Polamalu

PersonAlwaysBeenVery

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

Rob Lowe

CultureRealityYouIgnoringCounter

I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.

Mary Steenburgen

LovedBetterYouKnowDoneWant

These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.

Lucy Powell

Tough TimesKnowledgeExperience

People will feel the way they feel.

LL Cool J

PeopleFeelWillWay

'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American life, and to my own particular child - and girlhood in upstate New York. Everyone in the novel is enormously close to me, including Marianne's cat, Muffin, who was in fact my own cat.

Joyce Carol Oates

LifeHeartNew YorkChildMeThink

You embrace disruption. I think it's a good thing.

Denise Morrison

GoodThinkYouEmbraceDisruption

Since the end of World War II, U.S. presidents of both parties have recognized that foreign and domestic policy do not have to be pursued at the expense of each other.

Bret Stephens

WarWorldEndWorld War IIPolicy

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