Izabella Scorupco Quotes
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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The script is just a blueprint.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
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Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.
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Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?
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Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.
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I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eye shadow up our eyebrows and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.
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We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.
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Oklahoma State was the only (school) that offered me a scholarship. When you've only got one to choose from, it don't take you long to make up your mind. I liked Stillwater. People said, "You're not going to like Stillwater because it's stuck right out in the middle of nowhere.” Well, that's the thing I liked about it the most. They had horses and cows and sheep and hogs. Stuff I was used to. If I had gone to Texas or Oklahoma, I'd have been out of place. But I kind of fit in up there. You wore blue jeans and a hat. Like I tell people, I'm from Texas, I'll always be a Texan, but I owe so much to Oklahoma State. Anything I've got today comes from Oklahoma State.
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No habit has any real hold on you other than the hold you have on it.
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I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me.
