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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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.
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Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy.
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If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
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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.
