Adam Michnik Quotes
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.
