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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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 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'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
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'Avengers 3' has a beginning, middle, and a very definitive end, and 'Avengers 4' does the same.
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I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
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Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.
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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.
