Charlie Kaufman Quotes
The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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Proust is a huge author for me.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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I certainly think that we can take steps to prevent this kind of weapon that is designed to create mass casualties from getting into the hands of the wrong people while still protecting the Second Amendment rights of the people of New Hampshire and making sure that we're protecting the ownership and use of legitimate hunting rifles.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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If Barack Obama weren't a U.S. citizen, I'm sure Bill and Hillary Clinton would have figured that out by now.
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You have 22 episodes to start from zero to hero; you can really take a nice, big, long arc. In a film, it's tough to do that - you only have 90 minutes.
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The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.
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I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.
