Adam Michnik Quotes
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives: different footwork drills, body positions, angles and geometry. All that stuff is helpful, and so when I do other sports, I can see things, because once you know one sport, then the other sport becomes more clear.
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The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento of him or her secreted away inside her. Similarly, a bit of our mothers live on in all of us no matter how long ago Mom died.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
