Charlie Kaufman Quotes
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.
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I think it's time to explore our relationship to the hereafter and the now and determine whether or not there is a part mankind can play at this time to forestall the nuclear bubble breaking and the world coming to an end.
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When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.
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For a lot of people, life's been pretty good. There hasn't been true terror right in your face.
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There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
