Jerzy Kosinski Quotes
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.
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I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges.
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I am a relaxed person. I am very happy.
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It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
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It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.
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I'm not musical myself.
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Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.
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The atmosphere is blue by reason of the darkness above it because black and white make blue.
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Such religion as there can be in modern life, every individual will have to salvage from the churches for himself.
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I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact they're having on the world economy and they way they're creating these winner-take-all spirals.
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As life goes on I'm starting to learn more and more about responsibility.
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You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
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Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
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I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
