Eleanor Coppola Quotes

It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side.

Eleanor Coppola

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• Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Blood
  • Vampire
  • Imperialism

• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

  

  Ted Rall
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Just

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Character
  • Luck

• I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

  

  Ice T
  • Real
  • Effort
  • Keep

• To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Problems
  • Negotiation

• In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Past
  • City
  • Now

• I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Red
  • Celebrity

• The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Alive
  • Championship

• I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Community

• Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

  

  Ira Glass

• Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Dark
  • Hair

• John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Walking

• My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Son
  • Wishes

• If somebody would've told me that I was going to lose my legs at the age of 19, I would've thought there's absolutely no way I'd be able to handle that. But then it happened, and I realized that there's so much more to live for, that my life isn't about my legs.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Song
  • Sick
  • Stand

• For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Family

• It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side.

  

  Eleanor Coppola
  • Death
  • Watch
  • Little