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My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#first #happened #i #marriage #rebound

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. ↗

— Voltaire

#degrees #hand #perfection #requires #slow

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#blessing #brought #dead #mixed #very

A person that has more intelligence than education always makes his own grade! ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#education

Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#armstrong #bad #been #believe #cancer

In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#budget #cases #except #few #films

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#association #authorities #become #fact #founded

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#american #available #been #before #entertainment

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#anchors #consequently #in the past #know #language

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#difficulty #even #film #given #good