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Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Action Participation Active Without

Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.

Culture Think You Person Go Crisis

When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13. Crappy rock bands, avant-garde things where we'd, like, 'wanna go against the norm, man.'

Man Writing Singing Guitar Go Rock

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

Shirley MacLaine

Comedy Actor Class Teeth Wonderful

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.

Day World Free Talking Now Need

I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together.

Together I Am Happy Win Believe

I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.

Men Medical Me Meet Oil Ask

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'

Yourself Thinking You Stop Like Ape

My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.

Eyes Baseball You Look Will Clear

Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.

Donella Meadows

Change Great Environmental Face Land

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

Manipulation Politicians Transparent

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

Back Down Satisfaction Test Get

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

Philip Emeagwali

Nature Me Problems Understand Fields

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