Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes
When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
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The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
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Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
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When designing your product, go beyond consumers' current knowledge base. Design, test, and dig deeper than almost any client would pay you to do.
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The thing I enjoy about going fast is the risk-reward scenario you get. If you make good decisions, the benefits are amazing. If you get it wrong, you can lose so much.
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In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.
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They bring me faith like a closed package in someone else's plate. They want me to accept it so that I don't open it.
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Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.
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The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
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Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
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House arrest, travel restrictions, surveillance, stopping phone service, cutting the Internet connection. What we can still do is greet the crazy motherland once again.
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I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.
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I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to get a new perspective.
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Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.
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When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.
