Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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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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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job.
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The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.
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I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.
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I don't think I put too much pressure on myself.
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Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.
