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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I've been an art collector since the Sixties, and I kept it very separate from my showbusiness career. I've had art shows since the early Nineties, a museum show that travelled to four countries. I've had three or four art books; it's just another way I have to tell stories.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.
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And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation.
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I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow
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I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
