Charlie Kaufman Quotes
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
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I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
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Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.
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I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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I still tell a lot of jokes and do a lot of funny comics, but the stuff I like best is the personal stuff. I will still occasionally talk about my job and retail, but it evolved.
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When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!'
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The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
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My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.
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I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.
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Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.
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I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
