Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes
I lived a pretty chaotic life. I went to England, and I moved around, and there were a lot of things that I was interested in. I wrote poetry. I took photographs. I was a musician and all sorts of things. Nothing brilliant, but I did all these different things.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.
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I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.
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To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
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I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.
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Performance-wise, you really need to be down in the trenches; you need to do the hard work, for a lot of reasons: To build yourself as a performer, to get a sense of the audience, to work hard and to wonder, 'Do I really want to do this?'
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I lived a pretty chaotic life. I went to England, and I moved around, and there were a lot of things that I was interested in. I wrote poetry. I took photographs. I was a musician and all sorts of things. Nothing brilliant, but I did all these different things.
