Charlie Kaufman Quotes
There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
Charlie Kaufman
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Felix Adler
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
Camryn Manheim
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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.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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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.
Ursula Burns
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
Natalie Portman
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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.
Gavin Rossdale
Bush
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
Gautam Adani
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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.
J. D. Vance
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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.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
Dan Shechtman
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I try so hard to be true to myself. I hope I can help other girls realize that they don't have to do things just because everyone else is doing them.
Bindi Irwin
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Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
Jackie Chan
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My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.
Chad le Clos
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To do de-Baathification without an agreed process of reconciliation threw tens of thousands of people out of their jobs, out of their homes, out of their future, and even robbed them of their position in society.
David Petraeus
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I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.
Wagner Moura
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There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.
Charlie Kaufman
