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.
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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.
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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.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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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.
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A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
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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.
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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.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
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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.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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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.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
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What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work.
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If you love me trueAnd if you love me trueI'll spend my life with youAnd TimerYou're a jigsaw, Timer
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My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.
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It's great at least to be at 4-2, ... That part is fun. You get to play games that count now. We're entering a tough stretch here. It starts with the Giants.
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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.
