Sofia Coppola Quotes
My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
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The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
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I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
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America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.
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It's funny in the U.K., where I'm not really known because I never did a soap. My English cousins in the Lake District think I'm not a real actor because they've never seen me in 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours.'
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I am a daddy's girl at heart, even though I'm in my 30s.
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Positive energy is your priceless life force. Protect it. Don't allow people to draw from your reserves; select friends who recharge your energies . . . I'm not asking you to cut people out of your life, but I am asking you to invest your time with people who will push you to be your best. Winners love to see other people win.
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If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.
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When you say 'diversity,' the term has been denigrated over the years because it has been used as a crutch.
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I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
