Charlie Kaufman Quotes
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.
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I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.
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We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.
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How many fingers am I holding up?" he inquired. Lucille regarded him blearily and said, "Avocado.
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To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play.
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I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
