Jerzy Kosinski Quotes
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
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I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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I was actually born in Baltimore! Although I moved away when I was quite young and consider Chicago to be my hometown, Baltimore is sentimental to me, and I still keep in touch with family friends I knew as a little girl.
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I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.
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I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.
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When I modeled, I lived in Europe and worked all the time. I did runway, and that's all I did.
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All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.
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I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
