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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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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The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.
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Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.
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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.
