It wasn't too weird to be working with a dummy. My brother worked with puppets in Czechoslovakia, so anything goes in our family.
It wasn't too weird to be working with a dummy. My brother worked with puppets in Czechoslovakia, so anything goes in our family.
When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters
But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.
I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I learned they were taken to a camp in Czechoslovakia and my father died there. My mother went to Auschwitz.
It's been pretty well confirmed that he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack, ... Meet the Press.
Most people have friends, but no money. I have the opposite. I don't have a chance to talk to my real friends, the ones I've had since I was five years old. Sometimes I wish I could bring Czechoslovakia to America. Then I would be the happiest guy in the world.
The very first seed was really in the great Polish crisis of 1980-81, because it seems to me they were losing their nerve. Much earlier, they had that problem in Czechoslovakia (and) they didn't hesitate. They just decided to invade. With Poland, they could have invaded, but again it seemed to me that they were not ready to continue to defy world opinion. And to me this was a serious psychological sign of weakness.
I'm always watching my weight. I don't eat sweets like cookies or chocolate. Sugarless chewing gum is enough for me. But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no.
By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
British science has a certain style and, of course, my problem is that, although I was born in Czechoslovakia, I am the archetypal British scientist.
The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.
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