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.
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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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.
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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.
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The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
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There are people in this country who have waited for decades for affordable health coverage for themselves and their families.
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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.
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It's very American, making a lot of money.
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The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.
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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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I started modelling while still studying. I liked doing television commercials and being in front of the camera. Lots of ad directors told me to try for films.
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I never really wanted to be a singer, because I was a super-shy kid. Singing made me feel awkward, and I was really insecure.
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As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.
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This act is engraved in my mind deeper than any other experience in my two tours in Vietnam. A huge black enlisted man, clad only in shorts and boots, hands bigger than dinner plates, reached into my helicopter to pick up one of the dead white soldiers. He had tears streaming down his face and he tenderly cradled that dead soldier to his chest as he walked slowly from the aircraft to the medical station.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.
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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.
