Wojciech Kurtyka Quotes
Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
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I remember how to be a person by being around them.
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Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.
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As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
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Usus communis aquarum est.Nec solem proprium natura nec aera fecitnec tenues undas
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The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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reading an email 'Dear Craig, … are your letters written by your writers?' No. 'Does this make me one of your writers?' (ponders) Yes. 'Why haven't I been paid?' Because you're one of my writers!
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A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahead, the forecasts of the two series will form a constant ratio, as is expected by some asymptotic economic theory.
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The first step is you have to say that you can.
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I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.
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Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.
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I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
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If I ever found a church that didn't believe in knocking all the other churches, I might consider joining it.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.
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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
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Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.
