Witold Rybczynski Quotes
Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.
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It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.
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Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.
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The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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You don't always do the same things you've done the night before. That's what makes playing live so interesting as opposed to being in the studio.
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I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.
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When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I’m more than just what you see on YouTube.
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Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room for daydreaming. This is what makes watching such an inferior form of leisure
