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Ethan Coen Quotes

'The Big Lebowski' was something we wrote for Jeff Bridges, and we set it aside for a couple of years because he wasn't available.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: September 21, 1957

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Bridges Years Big Something Because

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

New York Me New Up Crab Monsters

I wasn't allowed to watch regular television when I was growing up, only PBS, so I watched 'Masterpiece Theatre' and a lot of Jane Austen. I loved stories where the girl is attracted to a man and it looks like it's not going to work out.

Jennifer Coolidge

Work Girl Man Growing Up Theatre

Some people think of the '50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.

Andrew Sean Greer

Time People Think Anxiety Innocence

I don't cry about anything.

Cry Anything About

Sweet Washington cherries and Walla Walla onions are two of my favorite local treats.

Sweet Washington Two Cherries Local

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

Time Smart People Me Attention Who

The American people are tired of being told. They're tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They're tired of hearing politicians in both parties tell us that we'll get to that tomorrow while we pile a mountain range of debt on our children and our grandchildren.

Good Children Mountain Tired People

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Work Hard Work Education Opportunity

I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.

War People Blessed Think Christian

Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them.

Family Parents Baby Rest Christian

I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

Empowerment Years Voices Economic

Academy Awards don't really solve anything.

Richard LaGravenese

Awards Anything Really Solve Academy

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