Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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The things I've really loved doing over the years most consistently are running and yoga.
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As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
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Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.
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It's important for me to have my family close.
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When a company makes a fundamental change, it is inevitable that some people will leave.
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Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.
