Agnieszka Holland Quotes
I was sure that none of the other wonderful actors I had met for this role would have such truthfulness, would have such courage and self-awareness of auto-destruction as River does.
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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Cricket was my reason for living.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'
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Every actor fears unemployment – even me.
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The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors the present state of our civilization and its profound discontents. As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the muted suffering of millions and to the great courage it must have taken the author to set his mind against it.
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I went to a school in Cambridge, which I thought was completely rotten. Yes, hated it. Now they want me to go back there and support this, that, and the other and I haven't managed to pluck up the courage to even face it yet.
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I was sure that none of the other wonderful actors I had met for this role would have such truthfulness, would have such courage and self-awareness of auto-destruction as River does.
