Charlie Kaufman Quotes

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

Charlie Kaufman

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• Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Long
  • Simple
  • Serious

• If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Life
  • Happy
  • My Life

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Page

• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Nice
  • Win

• Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Why
  • Everything
  • Class

• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Taken

• There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • World
  • Position
  • Spanish

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Mom

• I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • God
  • Poetry
  • Eye

• I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • World
  • American
  • Weird

• Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Long
  • Way
  • Elegance

• I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Television

• Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Common
  • Privacy
  • Sitting

• I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • World
  • Work
  • Author

• This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Life
  • Me
  • Difference

• I'm finding that I tend to be one of those people who gets into very committed, long-term relationships, and then I really focus on that relationship and not so much myself.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • People
  • Long
  • Relationship

• So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I made a personal decision when I was very young. I enjoy going to church without my parents. On Sunday mornings, I want to go. Bible studies on Wednesdays... I have a relationship - not just through my parents.

  

  AJ Michalka
  • People
  • Up
  • Parents

• The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • True

• It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • God
  • Food

• We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Business
  • Small

• I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Relationship