Sofia Coppola Quotes
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The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known.
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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets.
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If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll want to join me here in the Wow, I Like No Need of Sympathy Club. Your membership fee is the same as your membership privileges: this book.
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I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?
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I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the audience won't understand it;" "let's not make the girls wear corsets, because it's not sexy" and all that sort of thing. Gradually it disintegrates into a no man's land: you don't really believe it's a period scene and it doesn't feel like it's now because it's not now. You don't feel it's quite real and you don't believe in it.
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Every good soldier wants to live in an organized environment, secure in the knowledge that he or she will not be threatened or harassed by others, confident that his or her efforts will be recognized, and aware that the nonproductive soldier will be invited to leave. In such an environment, soldiers will be proud of their units and will demonstrate that pride with their performance and behavior.
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The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.
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You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
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[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.
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A man may see straight and clearly and yet become impatient or doubtful when the market takes its time about doing as he figured it must do. That is why so many men in Wall Street, who are not at all in the sucker class, not even in the third grade, nevertheless lose money. The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.
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What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
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I'm always a sucker for a love story.
