Sofia Coppola Quotes
I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.
Quotes to Explore
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
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Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.
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I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
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I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.
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Balance your thoughts with action. - If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
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Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
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No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.
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My feeling is that if there are that many billions of stars, maybe someone is saying exactly what I'm saying at this moment. I don't know. It's not something I'm obsessed by or think about all the time, but I certainly open to thinking it could be.
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I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.
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I always try and make people feel that they are strong enough to say something - anything, to anyone - even if it's a stranger or they're just writing a tweet if they're in danger.
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I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.
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One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
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You're here for a good time, not a long time.
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Women hold themselves back because they don't think their perspective matters. I'm here to tell you that you're not just robbing yourself when you do that: you're robbing all of us.
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I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.
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Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.
