Charlie Kaufman Quotes

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

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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.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Up
  • College
  • New

• I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Habit
  • Gym
  • Shopping

• It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Always
  • Literature

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • School
  • True
  • Pretty

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Day
  • Like
  • Queen

• I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Road
  • Down

• I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Faithful
  • Sinner
  • Despised

• 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.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• 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.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Money
  • May
  • Quality

• 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.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • World
  • Great
  • Space

• 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.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Funny
  • Mom
  • Couple

• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Army
  • Jail
  • Oppose

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• There's no way you can imagine going from kids in high school to being the best band in the world.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that influences so many people.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • People
  • Different
  • Wish

• They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible.

  

  John Doerr
  • World
  • Great
  • Real

• Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Rest

• Let me buy a security pass … so that they can scan me and and search me and measure my penis, then let me get on the plane.

  

  James Carville
  • Search

• I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • World
  • Different
  • Insecurity