Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know.
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I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.
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I know better than anyone else that my time is near. I've had a good life, and you don't stop and complain at this stage of the game. I've made some mistakes, and I'd like to stay around a little longer and overcome them, but there isn't time. I'll miss baseball. That I know.
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Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.
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What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
