Charlie Kaufman Quotes

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

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• In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • People
  • Life
  • Science

• Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

  

  Dane Cook
  • Just
  • Hot
  • Notes

• I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Year
  • Name
  • Prison

• We all have the right to comment about each other.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Right
  • Other
  • Comment

• We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Army
  • Danger
  • Flexibility

• I'm actually not on Twitter.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Actually
  • Twitter

• I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don't like it. I don't think of it as work. I love it all.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Air
  • Ability
  • Consumers

• Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • History
  • Will
  • Accept

• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Better
  • Whiskey

• We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Education
  • Focus

• That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Impulses

• I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Important
  • Think
  • Symbolism

• Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Time
  • History
  • Unique

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Day

• As far as getting work, no one thought I spoke English. It was absolutely ridiculous. I'd show up at a meeting and they'd be like, 'Oh my God, you speak English! That's so cool.' They didn't really know what to do with me.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Up
  • Work
  • God

• If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Business
  • You
  • Drive

• There may be a perception that, with franchises, they're all the same, so that limits the ability to experiment. But that's not true. We've always kept two slots open on the menu of each Subway franchise - slots that franchisees can use to come up with their own sandwich ideas.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • Up
  • May
  • True

• I'm not worried about a title. It's just go and have fun.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Fun

• But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

  

  Ira Glass
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  • Great
  • Interesting

• I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
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