#na

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#best #common #imagination #over #primacy

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#am #different #different points #distance #duality

I don't believe I have a mission. Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#believe #general #i #mission #more

Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#general #i #more #need #personal

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#born #bus #certainty #crowds #four

I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show. ↗

— Ice T

#hammer #i #just #like #million

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen. ↗

— Ice T

#choose #chosen #fortunate #into #just

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. ↗

— Ice T

#called #city #come #cop #day

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap. ↗

— Ice T

#get #into #just #level #make

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#again #auschwitz #exterminated #fifty #gypsies