Charlie Kaufman Quotes
In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
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To go in the water and stare at a shrimp for three minutes and not think about anything else in the world, it's just euphoric.
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To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.
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Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.
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In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.
