Sofia Coppola Quotes

It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.

Sofia Coppola

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• Imagine
• Distance
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• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Long
  • Imagination

• One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Monster

• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Distance
  • Qualities
  • Close

• Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Business
  • Goals
  • Distance

• A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Long
  • Distance
  • Busy

• I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Book
  • Day
  • Passion

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Money
  • Why
  • Imagination

• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Fool

• Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Leaving

• Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

  

  Lara St. John
  • People
  • Children
  • Family

• I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Imagination
  • Doing
  • Sea

• Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Future
  • Amazing

• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Love
  • Imagination

• I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Teacher

• I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Distance

• When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Interesting
  • Imagination

• I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.

  

  Maria Doyle Kennedy
  • People
  • School
  • Job

• I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Ideas
  • Precise
  • Readership

• It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Want
  • Conventional

• Every couple of years - no, that's every couple of weeks - I think I'm going to give up acting.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Up
  • Couple

• It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Imagination
  • Imagine
  • Distance