Charlie Kaufman Quotes
I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
Quotes to Explore
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
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Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
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This is a day and age when the perimeter players are scoring more than the interior players.
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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
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I've had several sleepless nights.
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The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.
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I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
