Wislawa Szymborska Quotes
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
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I'm an outsider.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
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It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it.
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As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political steps on political ground.
