Sofia Coppola Quotes

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

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• A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Teacher
  • Dog
  • Theory

• God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Waiting
  • Broken

• At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • May
  • Relationship
  • Wonder

• We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • People
  • Goal
  • Values

• All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Long
  • Day
  • Door

• I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Start

• When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Important
  • Book
  • Help

• We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Question
  • Learn

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Country
  • Truth

• The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Heart
  • Science
  • Lies

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Experience
  • Parents
  • Knowledge

• Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Change

• People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Death
  • Wish

• The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Time
  • Music
  • Kid

• There are people in this country who have waited for decades for affordable health coverage for themselves and their families.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • People
  • Country
  • Health

• If anyone is ever rude to you, then there's no need to hang out with them! Just find the people that make you feel good.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • People
  • Good
  • Rude

• Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • People
  • Job
  • Education

• If I didn't love tennis, I wouldn't be playing. That's also why I don't know how long I will be playing because if I start feeling like this is not what I want to do anymore, that there's not really any reason anymore.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Long
  • Why
  • Feeling

• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Freedom

• I'm a huge Trekkie.

  

  Belinda Johnson

• I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

  

  Sofia Coppola
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