Andre Kertesz Quotes
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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People trash talk me.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.
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I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.
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I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
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In science, the kind of evidence matters; all unlikelihoods are not created equal.
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The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
