Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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The Torjagerkanone means a lot to me. It was a great effort - made by the whole team.
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Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
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I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.
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I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
