Krzysztof Kieslowski Quotes
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.
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This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!
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In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by “its” regime. This was an outcome of statification, party growth, and all the other indices that have been discussed.442 The dissolution of Iraqi identity is the most fundamental explanation for why no connection existed in Baʿthist Iraq between military achievements and extending or withholding political allegiance.
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Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
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I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
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In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.
