Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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Shakespeare is universal.
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I write. I'm very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
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I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.
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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
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A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.
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As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.
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I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.
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We’re such contrary creatures
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Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.
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Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available.
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In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this novel the New People, I listened to a lot of 90s hip-hop, which was just so genius. Also, all the musical references in the book from the Peoples Temple one and only album to Luther Vandross.
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A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
