Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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I think Mitt Romney is a good man.
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I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
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CIU is not something to just tolerate. It's important to find an allergist or dermatologist who can work with you to help manage your condition.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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I can create for others.
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Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
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I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.'
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
