Andrzej Wajda Quotes
Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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I love an iPad game of Scrabble.
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My private life stays private.
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.
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The only thing I fear is when people say, 'I should go to the theatre more.' I say, 'We should create work that makes you not have a choice.'
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known.
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Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.
