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 fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
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Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
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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.
