Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes

If you wanted to make a film about British teenagers, it would be... well, it wouldn't interest me; let's put it like that. They'd be listening to music I hate, watching TV all the time, and talking about 'Big Brother.'

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• There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Morning

• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Buddhist

• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Innovation

• Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Page

• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Child
  • Toy
  • Youngest

• I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Kids
  • Always

• I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Friends
  • College
  • Forever

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Children
  • Words
  • Poetry

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Family
  • Business
  • California

• But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.

  

  Lake Bell
  • America
  • Community
  • New York

• Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Two
  • Fact
  • Sides

• The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.

  

  Harold Edward Holt
  • Great
  • War
  • Help

• How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Important
  • Way
  • Best

• On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Day
  • Hands
  • December

• My family was really big on college, and it was hard for them to stomach that I was going to be a hairdresser.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Family
  • College

• Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored. But then it occurred to me that musing is a pointless waste of anyone's time, and instead I went off to see if I could find a Baby Ruth candy bar, a far more profitable exercise.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Question

• You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

  

  Jack Huston
  • You
  • Eyes
  • Emotion

• If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • Responsibility

• If you wanted to make a film about British teenagers, it would be... well, it wouldn't interest me; let's put it like that. They'd be listening to music I hate, watching TV all the time, and talking about 'Big Brother.'

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Hate