Krzysztof Kieslowski Quotes
Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
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I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way.
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It is not good for ordinary people to say, 'I am He.' The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves? The upshot of the whole thing is that, no matter what path you follow, yoga is impossible unless the mind becomes quiet. The mind of a yogi is under his control; he is not under the control of his mind.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
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I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.
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My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.
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A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
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Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one.
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You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.
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Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.
