Charlie Kaufman Quotes
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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I don't do meetings.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.
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I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.
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The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
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I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
