Jerzy Kosinski Quotes
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
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I'm a big Prada fan. I always think that they seem to fit me well.
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To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
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I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
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Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
