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.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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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!
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I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
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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.
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The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.
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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.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
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Disneyworld…is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.
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’They are a very great boon to mankind, dentists,’ said Isabel. ‘And I’m not sure that we are grateful enough to them. I’m not sure that we even bother to thank them.’ She paused. Were there any statues of dentists? She thought not. And yet there should be.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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I throw 14 parties a week.
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Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.
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...History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.'
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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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.
