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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Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.
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For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?
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My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'
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My biggest problem is retaining the exact information.
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The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt to bolster a growing reliance on the government--especially the judiciary--as the source of our rights. But if our rights are not unalienable, if they don't come from a source higher than ourselves, then they're malleable at the will of the state. This is a prescription for tyranny.
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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.
