Charlie Kaufman Quotes
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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I've never been in prison. I've been in jail a lot. But I've never actually been sentenced to anything.
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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
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I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
