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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One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
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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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You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
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I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
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You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
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I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.
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I like actors - I used to be one.
