Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
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Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the dream of that, but we all know this dream may be not possible. So here we have the key of the ambiguity of the atmosphere of my films. Is it possible, this dream? Is it as funny as it seems, or is it tragic?
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Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.
