Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
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The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.
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'Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' - People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.
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The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
