Sofia Coppola Quotes
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it.
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People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
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Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.
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I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
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Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
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Our officials want nothing more than to be at the top of their professional game and make the correct call. That's what they do; that's their living, that's their pride, that's their joy. They don't achieve that because they happen to be human.
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In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.
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A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.
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I think, when you become a politician, if you talk about religion too much, you're pandering or something.
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It bugs me when they have people my age 28 playing teenagers.
