Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes
I actually studied literature and philosophy. So, when I started making films, I didn't really know what I was doing, and I was too proud and arrogant to learn.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
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We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.
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It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
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My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.
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As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.
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I actually studied literature and philosophy. So, when I started making films, I didn't really know what I was doing, and I was too proud and arrogant to learn.
