Ethan Coen Quotes

'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.

Ethan Coen

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'Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit for anything that I've ever done as an actor.

Michael Biehn

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I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

Tom Verlaine

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The military budget must reflect the threats we face, rather than the budget defining those threats.

Tom Cotton

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Wrestling saved my life.

Roddy Piper

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I find when somebody says to me, 'I'm going to motivate you,' more often than not, they're not going to get me.

Jason Alexander

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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

Bobby Fischer

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I don't miss 'EastEnders.' I did a two-stretch. That was enough.

Phil Daniels

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In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Two Chainz

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I was just a bit of a loner as a young boy. And very, very sensitive. Ever the emotional young thing.

Thomas Middleditch

YoungBoyEmotionalLonerJustVery

Luckily, my father and my mother liked us to talk, so they encouraged us to talk, so that the girls in my house, they're all very powerful speakers and powerful agents of their own will, as is my brother.

Ntozake Shange

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It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

Ryan Reynolds

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Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

Marianne Williamson

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