Francis Ford Coppola Quotes
The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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I have no trouble sleeping.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
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I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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M&S clothes just get better and better, year after year. I'm always begging for stuff from every shoot we do.
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You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.
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I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world
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The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.
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A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
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Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.
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The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.
