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.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Husband
  • Gal

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Work
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Community
  • Day
  • Leader

• Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Good
  • Real
  • Reality

• I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Important
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Help
  • Like
  • Journalism

• 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.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• 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.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Freedom
  • Beginning
  • Process

• My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • She
  • Mother
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • World
  • Education
  • College

• Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Finding

• When designing your product, go beyond consumers' current knowledge base. Design, test, and dig deeper than almost any client would pay you to do.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • You
  • Knowledge
  • Design

• 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.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Good
  • Amazing
  • Risk

• 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.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Faith

• Wanting to is the whole lesson; all the rest is practice.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Rest
  • Practice

• The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Mind
  • True

• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Death

• People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

  

  George Washington
  • Done
  • Purpose
  • Summer

• The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

  

  John Maeda
  • Time

• Graffiti is a lot easier than the canvas actually, because it's such a large format, so when you're going to such a thin detail, it's not that thin in the realm of things because it's such a big wall. This would take a small paint brush of detail, but on a huge wall, if that's the size of a building, the thinnest detail is still that big, it's a quick spray. Spray paint is easiest for me. I love spray paint.

  

  Alec Monopoly
  • Wall
  • Size
  • Graffiti

• 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.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski