Lech Walesa Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
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I think Mitt Romney is a good man.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.
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If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.
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I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.
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Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.
