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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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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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 was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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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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Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
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My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?
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Before I really knew country music, I listened to pop, and I still do.
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
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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.
