Francis Ford Coppola Quotes
Anyone who’s made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
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I'm very happy alone.
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Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.
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In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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A film is a portrait of an aspect of society.
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Anyone who’s made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
