Charlie Kaufman Quotes
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.
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I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.
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I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.
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I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.
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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
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Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,No man hath walked along our roads with stepSo active, so inquiring eye, or tongueSo varied in discourse.
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I told myself that if I went to Compton High, and I made something out of the school, it would mean something to me later down the line because I started everything. And future kids would say, 'DeMar made it here; why can't I?' I wanted to stay home.
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I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach.
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I set out to tell my story, which is based on my family. Dr. Cosby told his story in 'The Cosby Show.' The comparisons stop there in terms of my creation of the show. We just both happen to have black fathers at the center of it.
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There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.
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The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
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I like actors - I used to be one.
