Andrzej Wajda Quotes
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.Andrzej Wajda
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick -
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell -
Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
Rabih Alameddine -
You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
Edgar Ramirez -
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
Hans Haacke -
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
Samuel L. Jackson
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
Patricia Polacco -
My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
Kaley Cuoco -
Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
Mackenzie Davis -
I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
Taylor Wilson -
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
Ramana Maharshi
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben -
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
Gavin Newsom -
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
Ted Danson -
This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
Rahman Baba -
Few things are as essential as education.
Walter Annenberg -
We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.
Uday Kotak
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons -
I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.
Melanie Laurent -
I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
Fred Melamed -
I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'
James Turrell -
Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love for what you're doing and a vitality and a sense of well-being that is generated by your art.
Dan Fante -
The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.
Andrzej Wajda