Francis Ford Coppola Quotes
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
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I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.
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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
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Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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I love being the sidekick. I'm pretty sure fans love seeing me that way.
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I consider myself a little weak.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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…the cold deflation of crapula…
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Finally, please remember this. If you EVER need something that you can stand behind, something to help you to take on and deflect all of the hatred of this often cruel world, you will ALWAYS have Black Veil Brides.
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I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."
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In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.
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Chaos can be incredibly creative.
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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
