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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Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.
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You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - all hat and no cattle. Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.
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In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'
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The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.
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The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence touches the ten thousand things but the people do not depend on him. With him there is no promotion or praise - he lets everything find its own enjoyment. He takes his stand on what cannot be fathomed and wanders where there is nothing at all.
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
