Philip Kaufman Quotes
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
Quotes to Explore
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn't know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.
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Everyone was becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old.
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That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.
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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
