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Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

Jerzy Kosinski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: polish
Birth: June 14, 1933 - May 3, 1991

Topics

Art Moment Purpose Me You Stop

We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037.

Joe Heck

Action Security Go Know Social Set

The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.

Johannes Kepler

Equal Times

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

Megan Rapinoe

Good Responsibility World Society

I want to know how the mind works.

John O'Keefe

Mind Know Want How Works

To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor.

Rob Lowe

Year Go Now Actor Same Playing

I used to get an awful lot of letters, and they have almost all gone. I used to answer nearly all of them.

Ruth Rendell

Letters Answer Gone Used Get Almost

Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.

Mo Ibrahim

Rest Peaceful Country Africa Been

I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started, watching the Winnipeg Jets play as a young kid.

Jonathan Toews

Me Hockey Think Play Young Why

I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.

Jordan Peele

Life Love Child Me Night Demons

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

Diane Paulus

Art You Create Kind Director Hired

I never thought that I would treasure doing my job, and I have reached that point. I've gotten to a point where it's like the priesthood: this is what I was called to do.

Diane S. Sykes

Job Thought Doing Treasure Never

My policy is to do the least amount to get by.

Chrissie Hynde

Policy Get Least Amount