Quotes by Polish authors
Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much.
Izabella Scorupco
Polish-Swedish actress
Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.
Donald Tusk
Former President of the European Council
My university organised a casting call for a film and I won the role. I played a character who was dying of cancer. I remember in the middle of shooting going, 'Oh my God! Why did I decide to do this?' But people noticed me in it and I started getting invited to castings.
Joanna Kulig
Polish actress
I'm very open to fight Valentina Shevchenko. I always want to fight the best fighters and I think that she is one of the top female fighters in the world.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk
Polish mixed martial artist
In a certain sense we can be proud to have introduced this hairstyle to Europe. 'Plica polonica' should be added to the list of our inventions, alongside crude oil, pierogi and vodka.
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish writer
I have a vision, and I know I'm right.
Lech Walesa
Former President of the Republic of Poland
Capitalism is in crisis.
Lech Walesa
Former President of the Republic of Poland
Slowly, step-by-step, I will reach my goals and my dreams.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk
Polish mixed martial artist
At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polymath
I don't really like talking too much about myself, but I have this feeling that it's all clicking for me. It's all coming together.
Lukasz Fabianski
Polish football player
Listen to the triple fugue in 'Magnificat' - the first subject is seven voices, the second one has 52 different voices, the third uses five; then I combine all together. Such textures you cannot call primitive.
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer
I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer
I am a very neurotic person all the time.
Joanna Kulig
Polish actress
I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
Lech Walesa
Former President of the Republic of Poland
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Polish film director
I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.
Pawel Pawlikowski
Polish filmmaker
Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message.
Pawel Pawlikowski
Polish filmmaker
The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.
Marek Belka
Member of the European Parliament
I used to do most of my composing at a little table in a cafe. Composing for 52 instruments, I had to figure out how to accommodate myself to the small table.
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer
There's a kind of passionate expression in all my pieces. It's just that the nature of the expression takes different forms.
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer
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