Agnieszka Holland - biography, filmography, articles, recent projects
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Directors To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Directors
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Directors When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Directors
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Directors There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Directors
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Directors Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Directors
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Directors The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Directors
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Directors Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Directors
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Directors America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Directors
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Directors "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Directors
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Directors "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Directors
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Directors The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Directors
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Directors Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Directors
