Charlie Kaufman Quotes
I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.
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I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
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The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
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Expectation is in itself a very pretty sort of reality.
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The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
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I get to listen to a lot of this music again doing my DJ work on Little Steven's Underground Garage. To hear Van Morrison on Them's version of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"- what a vocal, and what an arrangement. Also, I get to hear so many records that I missed the first time around - The Chocolate Watchband, Roky Erikson. It's an audio food fest, a total privilege, a second chance.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I want to try it to see what it's like and see what my stuff looks like when I take it from inception to completion.
