Adam Thirlwell Quotes
Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real. In response, Krzhizhanovsky's prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.... It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.
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The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.
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I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.
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It is a tomb, most famous of the Mughals, whose empire flourished in India between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, enshrining the remains of the fifth emperor of the dynasty, w:Shah Jahan|Shah Jehan| and those of his second wife Mumtaz Mahal. She died before him and construction of the complex began immediately.
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And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?
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I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.
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Oh, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped and chawed the buttered toast They gave us for our tea.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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I wouldn't want to do a Bollywood film per se, but I would like to do an Indian-language film. For some reason I think Bollywood has become synonymous with commercial cinema, which is song and dance and everything that is larger than life, and I am interested in the reality.
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The accomplishment that I am most proud of is that 'Free Willy' and 'Dave' got a political message out, which isn't easy to do within the constraints of studio moviemaking.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real. In response, Krzhizhanovsky's prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.... It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear.
