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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Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.
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My songs are like my children. I love every single one of them.
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I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
