Sofia Coppola Quotes
Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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I would like to enlighten people.
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I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
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Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.
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Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.
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I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.
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Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
