Sofia Coppola Quotes

I always try to make the soundtrack a good CD on its own.

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trying
  • Wife
  • Trump

• I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.

  

  Maluma
  • Music
  • Trying
  • English

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.

  

  Flume
  • Trying
  • True
  • Success

• I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Know

• It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Trying
  • Community

• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Truth

• I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Trying
  • Mistakes
  • Worried

• I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy and adjust to the new regimen I was setting up for myself.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Music
  • Trying

• Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Successful

• The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Trying
  • First
  • Everything

• I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Want

• I've spent my entire adult life involved in the community trying to help people live decent lives, working for a strong and secure state of Israel, and making sure that the most vulnerable in our society receive the care that they need.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Trying
  • Friends

• They say that the truth will set you freeBut then again, so will a lie...It depends if you're trying to get to the promised landOr if you're just trying to get by.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Trying
  • Truth

• It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Small

• Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

  

  Paul Watson
  • Real
  • Trying

• I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Different
  • Thinking

• From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I've done my sell-out films already. I've sold everything! I've sold every piece of soul I ever had!

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I don't get this shitty attitude that only gays should care about gay issues and only women should care about women's issues.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Women
  • Care
  • Gay

• Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

  

  Jim Talent
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Job

• I always try to make the soundtrack a good CD on its own.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Trying