Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
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It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
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White America is in the minority.
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
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One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
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A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
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Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
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Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have eights. It's not something I can explain, it's just there. Another obsession I have is smell. I have to smell good all the time.
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I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent.
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The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems irresistible and important, and they devour our energy. But in the light of time's perspective, their deceptive prominence fades; with a sense of loss we recall the vital tasks we pushed aside. We realize we've become slaves to the tyranny of the urgent.
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In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
