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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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 love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
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Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent.
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The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
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You are what you love. Not what loves you.
