Pawel Pawlikowski Quotes
For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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Those who work the hardest are the last to surrender.
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I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
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We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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I don't think I was a good model. I think I was born to emote and act. I would walk down the ramp and smile and they used to say, 'Give us a blank look.' It was really difficult not to smile.
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He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.
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For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.
