Karolina Kurkova Quotes
There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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Watch out for people who feel weak. They may want to feel strong one day and you might not survive that moment.
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I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.
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No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year.
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I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.
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I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.
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There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.
