Charlie Kaufman Quotes
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
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I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.
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I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.
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My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.
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What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.
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Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
