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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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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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.
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Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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I think connecting to a character is like connecting to any human being - either you like them or you don't. You might not be able to list the reasons why you love your best friend or what attracted you to them; it's just something that you feel - a connection, an understanding, or a curiosity that makes you want to get to know them.
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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.
