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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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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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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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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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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If you ever watched 'Hercules,' you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of letters from kids around the world saying that the show helped them curb their temper and not look for trouble and just walk away from it because that was the stronger thing to do.
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There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
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With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
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The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
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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.
