Sofia Coppola Quotes
I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
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The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
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I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
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There are loads of fan sites for the 'Edge,' including deviant art, song lyrics using 'Edge' language, multiple entries on Wikipedia, there are even some 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' games all about the 'Edge.'
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You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
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I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.
