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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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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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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Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.
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The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.
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There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.
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The ethics of journalism are one thing. Another thing is the ethics of business.
