Joel Coen Quotes
And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
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So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
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You've got something really angsty for me to play? Bring it on. Most of the time, I'm goofing around and doing impressions of people, so that's nice.
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Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an incredible interviewer who cultivated a certain style by inserting her own personhood into a show on national television at a time when no one was talking about empowerment, spirituality, or our inner lives.
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O Mary, go and call the cattle home,And call the cattle home,And call the cattle homeAcross the sands of Dee;The western wind was wild and dank with foam,And all alone went she.
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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
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And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.
