Milan Kundera Quotes

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Milan Kundera

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I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.

Andrew Davies

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'Black Mirror' obviously has its own universe, with a very strong fingerprint and strong themes, and I was intrigued on reading. It's such a powerful piece of storytelling.

Max Richter

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By modulating the amount of blue in our environment, we can help people to relax, or to be alert; to fall asleep, or to stay awake.

Rogier van der Heide

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After my husband spell-checks one of my manuscripts, my editor says, 'It's been Normanized.'

Ruth Glick

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Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Mo Ibrahim

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All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.

Jose Mujica

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I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

Jose Canseco

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I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.

Sylvia Browne

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I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.

Noam Chomsky

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In many cases, companies use the crisis moments to pivot to do better. We like to be part of that.

Richard Edelman

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Pristine vulnerability is just so boring to me. The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowland's in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.

Kirsten Dunst

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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

George Matthew Adams

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