Jerzy Kosinski Quotes
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My parents were reluctant to let me start auditioning until I was at least a little bit emotionally stable - I'm still working on that! And so I started when I was fifteen, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me in terms of being able to focus my crazy teenage energy into something good.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
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We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
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I listen to older music like AC/DC.
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Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.'
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What's true of the Marvel brand is that we're not as invested in the cape and the cowl as we are in the individuals. That goes all the way back to Stan Lee, from the very beginning.
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I find that I get nervous before I play. Even sound checks can give me anxiety and screw with my mind. But as long as I can play a little acoustic guitar backstage if I'm feeling nervous, so I don't have to walk in there cold turkey, I'll be fine.
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The bottom-line message of history is that if you're doubling and tripling your money in record time, you're also more likely to lose it all.
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I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.
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I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.
