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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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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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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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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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 was with my grandmother, while one of my brothers lived with my dad, and one lived with my mom. It wasn't a great situation. Acting was the one good thing I was involved in.
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London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.
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If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.
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This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency.
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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.
