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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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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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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The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage...
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Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
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I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.
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I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
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When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.
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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.
