Joel Coen Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.
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African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
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I don't read the critics.
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
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When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.
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I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.
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Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated.
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I wouldn't give an astrologer the time of day.
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I think that I appeal to the girliness in all of us.
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I wouldn't have been surprised if they had voted me Most Likely To Kill Everyone At A High School Dance.
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Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.
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I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.
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One of my first jobs was as a recipe tester for a PR agency. One week, the editor of 'Housewife' magazine called my boss and asked me to write a column - the cookery editor had gone away on a press trip. I was terrified.
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Dividing everybody into genders and sexuality and races and religions, and I think it's important to have films out there, to have discussions out there which really try to get to grips with where that kind of thing can lead.
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I still have a Japanese passport. I haven't become an American citizen, and I am worried about getting deported every day.
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Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.
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Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
