Andrzej Stasiuk Quotes
It gives me no rest, my wish to know the fate of all these scenes that entered my eyes and have remained in my thoughts. What happens to them when I am no longer there?
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!
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I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.
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I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.
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If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
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Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
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When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.
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Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
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Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.
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I like when people don't know what to expect.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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It gives me no rest, my wish to know the fate of all these scenes that entered my eyes and have remained in my thoughts. What happens to them when I am no longer there?
