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Quotes by Polish Authors
"In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But the Soviet case is different, because you had systematic murder, like the Holocaust."
"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."
"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway."
"Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room."
"The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream."
"I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing."
"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."
"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
"In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love."
"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack."
"I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here."
"If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God."
"It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism."
"He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel."
"Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so."
"The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film."
"Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham."
"All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life."
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show."
"I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit."
"I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability."
"In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this."
"Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery."
"In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated."
"The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction."
"People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War."
"Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves."
"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."
"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."
"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture."
"Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation."
"In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way."
"Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious."
"This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father."
"Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me."
"I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that."
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