Nicolas Cage (Nicolas Kim Coppola) Quotes
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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Our management team strongly believes that the key opportunity of our business does not only come from just the increase in terms of number of users but also how we continue to enhance the value of our platform for our users.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it.
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It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
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More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.
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Don't lose the best thing in your life just because you are not sure.
