Sofia Coppola Quotes
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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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.
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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The first five albums I did, I tried a little bit of everything. I was trying not to conform at all.
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I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.
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In terms of CBS, I think that the consistency for them, it feels like they have a really clear sense of who they are and what they want, and they're able to keep delivering very consistently on their brand, which is really terrific, and I think NBC has taken some really smart and interesting routes in the things that they've done.
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I always try to make the soundtrack a good CD on its own.
