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Quotes by Czechoslovakian Authors
"I love photo sessions. I'm alone, I'm the queen, everyone's taking care of me."
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
"We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy."
"Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do."
"Asylum was good exposure for me and it is still shown quite often on television. I remember the special effects people had fun making a little doll that looked like me - which is not so easy - and it had to move along the floor."
"For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher."
"True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power."
"No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too."
"I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better."
"Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism."
"My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company."
"You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it."
"I think talent is dangerous to have if you take it for granted. If you use it well and put hard work with it together, it's hard to catch that guy. And I think that's what you're seeing right now."
"But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs."
"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."
"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."
"I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect."
"My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian."
"I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies."
"The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped."
"I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed."
Pen,
"If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do."
"We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional."
"The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material."
"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
"But I love fish, cheese and meat, and I eat everything, but only in small quantities if it's rich."
"The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win."
"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
"Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end."
"One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction."
"If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."
"For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life."
"I don't make a habit of watching tennis matches, but I try to watch all the major finals. I try to make time for that. So unless I have something going with the kids where I can't, I try to watch, and I enjoy that."
"It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence."
"But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed."
Now,
"It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys."
"An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head."
"My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco."
"I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments."
"Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey."
"Memories are doing funny things to us."
"I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there."
"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race."
"Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought."
"I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies."
"I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap."
"Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight."
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