Charlie Kaufman Quotes
I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
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When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It's like we're all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we're all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
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Living in New York, you get a lot of confidence; when I go back to Michigan, I realise how obnoxious and demanding and straightforward I am.
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I came- though the child of entirely irreligious Jewish parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.
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It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
