Francis Ford Coppola Quotes
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It’s astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.
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We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
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For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
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True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.
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As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
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And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities.
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There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
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You couldn't get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went into a sort of revolt.
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Heart is fun for the whole family!
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It’s astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
