Andrzej Wajda Quotes
On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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Portability should be the default.
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It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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At 9, I started taking classes at Sylvia Young Theatre School. One day, they asked if I wanted to join their agency. You get in if you're cute, I guess.
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On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.
