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Ethan Coen Quotes

Oscars just ain't gonna do it for me anymore. I need the Nobel Peace Prize. The Oscars have worn off, man.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Peace Man Me Need Prize Off

I am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

I Am Friends House Launch Thailand

When people asked me what I did, I'd say, 'I work in publishing', and when they then say, 'What side of it?', I say, 'Supply' - no doubt leaving them to think I drive the books around in a van and deliver them.

Work People Me Drive Think Doubt

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

Jennifer Esposito

Room Set Screaming Everywhere

I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.

Artist Always Found Concept Tortured

I like to do things that are publicly embarrassing, to feel the embarrassment touch me and sink into me and then be gone. I like getting on elevators and singing too loudly in that small space. The feeling you feel is almost like a vapor. The discomfort and the wishing that it would end that comes around you.

Stephen Colbert

Space Me Singing Small End You

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using wit to sort of battle their way through. And it seems to me that a lot of contemporary U.S. comedies are shot through with losers. None of the characters in 'The Big Bang Theory,' for instance, are studs.

Stephen Merchant

Hope Me Battle American Way Wit

When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute - how is this still going up? I'm waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me.

Stephenie Meyer

Moment New York Waiting Me Wait You

We look at Donald Trump: his bottom line is interconnected to all kinds of financial interests that he refuses to disclose. They actually affect his net worth.

Financial Worth Look Donald Trump He

The bottom line is: You are in control of your reactions to things and how you view things.

Control View You Line Bottom Things

Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the '50s. Not everybody, but in my milieu. My crowd. You went to college, and you got a degree in case, God forbid, you ever had to work. And you better find somebody to marry while you're there, because otherwise, what's going to become of you?

Work God College Better You Find

The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing.

Time Me You Swing Box Swinging

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.

World Book Bible Done More Harm

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