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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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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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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I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.
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At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.
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Surfing music is dead. It was just a summer craze for kids on the beach. I'm finished with it.
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It's fun being Bill Engvall.
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The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been on class war theme. It's been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are. They may have guns and pepper spray and helicopters and F16s and the whole U.S. military on their side, but when it comes down to it, we still have the numbers.
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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.
