Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
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The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
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Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
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What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.
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Whence come night and flood? How they disappear? Whither flies night from day; And how is it not seen?
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Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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On March 5, I will behead Rafael dos Anjos. I will drag his head through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, through a parade of people I'd imagine. It will become a national holiday also I would imagine.
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If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
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The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average has closed higher in 17 of the 21 sessions since Donald Trump was elected president, with about a dozen record closes so far as it continues marching higher.
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There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
