Agnieszka Holland Quotes
Henry James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice period piece, but that's not always the case. There's a deep human mystery in his work.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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I work mostly in the studio; as I mentioned several times, the leaves are burgeoning and change so rapidly that I have been unable to prepare a single sketch. I am making little watercolors and pastels, I think they will come out all right; in the studio I am preparing five or six canvases, I work on one after another, I am getting used to working that way.
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From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America.
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Take care that no one hates you justly.
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Henry James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice period piece, but that's not always the case. There's a deep human mystery in his work.
