Polish Quotes - Page 3

• Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

  Ruby Wax

  Jealous, My Boyfriend, Chicago

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• Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Roots, Important, Film

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Malgorzata Szumowska". Interview with Kirill Galestski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Call upon Angels to polish the jewels inside your thoughts and feelings, for within every fear or worry is a shining energy of love. Today be aware of your amazing power of manifestation. Know that in everything you think and feel, the entire universe is fully supporting you.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Thinking, Jewels

  Doreen Virtue (2008). “Daily Guidance from Your Angels”, p.33, Hay House, Inc

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• This mixture of Polish, not Polish, of being European, gives me a perspective to see Poland through "new eyes" - paradoxically, more closely... because it's from a kind of distance.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Distance, Eye, Perspective

  "Berlin Q&A: Director Malgorzata Szumowska". Interview with Kirill Galestski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 13, 2013.

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• If you polish things too much, it loses the feeling

  Geezer Butler

  Feelings, Too Much, Ifs

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• The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Would Be, Actors

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• Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Military, Support, Magnitude

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• Strike while the iron is hot.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Iron Will

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Barry Windeatt (2008). “Troilus and Criseyde: A New Translation”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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• A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines

  Bill Walsh

  Sports, Book, Reality

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• However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Movie, Actors, Filmmaking

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• I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

  David Knopfler

  People, Tears, Weakness

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• Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

  Geezer Butler

  Song, Rehearsal, Knocking

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• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Lech Walesa

  Sympathy, Army, Past

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• My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, Europe, May

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• I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.

  Lech Walesa

  People, Understanding, Feelings

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• On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.

  Andrzej Wajda

  School, Hands, Adults

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• Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Adults, Cinema, Our Society

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• I don't know, but I always loved that image of a girl putting toenail polish on a guy - her boyfriend, or something like that. Or a guy waking up in the morning and reaching over and putting on his girlfriend's shirt. Like Keith Richards putting on one of Anita Pallenberg's blouses, or Courtney Love putting nail polish on Kurt Cobain.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Morning, Guy

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• Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Art, Engineering, Law

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• [He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges his inner self year after year. One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being. And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Cutting, Self, Hands

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• I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.

  Elie Wiesel

  Farewell, Eye, Men

  Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.134, Penguin UK

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• Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

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• You don't order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them 'sister' the next.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Order, Shoes, One Day

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.49, A&C Black

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• I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

  Lech Walesa

  Taken, Advice, Too Much

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• It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

  Haruki Murakami

  Light, Small Rooms, Film

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