Charlie Kaufman Quotes

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

Charlie Kaufman

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• To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Done
  • Effort

• Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Reality
  • Wish

• Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • World
  • Three

• Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Time
  • Spirit
  • Genius

• When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Work
  • Small

• You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Know
  • Promise

• The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

  

  C. P. Scott
  • Happy
  • Circumstances

• Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Sympathy

• Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Daily

• We run to win, not just to be in the race.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Win
  • Race
  • Run

• When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Live
  • You
  • Civil Rights

• Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Today
  • Wise

• For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Book
  • Expectations

• I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Water
  • Sleep
  • Smile

• A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Trying
  • Fall

• To give this activity even covert support is of a piece with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world-nor on our own consciences.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Support
  • Lost

• If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Book
  • Perfect

• To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.

  

  Irving Babbitt

• Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Science
  • Positive

• You fight yourself, Zach. And you keep fighting yourself. And it's killing you because you're fighting the best part of yourself.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Fight
  • Killing

• I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Moon
  • Stars
  • Planets

• I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

  

  Charlie Kaufman