Francis Ford Coppola Quotes
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'
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Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.
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Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
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I think about Ellen DeGeneres, seeing her every single day on a show. Her identity is there every day, but what leads the way is her talent and how much you like her.
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My film is not a movie; it’s not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.
