Petra Nemcova Quotes
So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.
Quotes to Explore
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
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In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
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My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
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Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.
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So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.
