Jerzy Kosinski Quotes
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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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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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
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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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I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.
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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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When I was 21 or 22, I realized I was never going to be something else - I had to be a musician. I can't commit to anything unless I love it.
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The American dream is under assault.
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When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.
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I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.
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I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.
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I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.
