Charlie Kaufman Quotes
The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.
Quotes to Explore
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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If everything is the same, nothing is special.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.
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To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out of the action. It's got to talk about the characters, not the story: it has to augment that action.
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The more elevated a culture, the richer its language. The number of words and their combinations depends directly on a sum of conceptions and ideas; without the latter there can be no understandings, no definitions, and, as a result, no reason to enrich a language.
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Star performers are my favorite to manage and lead. Star performers are critical to any organization, and the key is how can you capture their heart-share and their mind-share when they're on this fast track.
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The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.
