Sofia Coppola Quotes
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I think there is no racism in this film industry. They are only in need of talent, though it takes time; but, if you are talented, you will get your due. I am thankful to be part of this industry.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.
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I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.
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Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage - whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state's or the society's.
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Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.
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In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.
