Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that.
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.