Francis Ford Coppola Quotes
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
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What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.
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Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
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It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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The greatest luxury is being free.
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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.
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I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.
