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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I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press. They can change to whatever they want to do at any point. They own this thing. They can do whatever they want.
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'
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The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy.
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When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
