Francis Ford Coppola Quotes
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.
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Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
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I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.
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We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.
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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
