Ethan Coen Quotes

You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general.

Ethan Coen

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I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.

Andre Benjamin

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I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

Michael C. Hall

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It was the cholesterol. I had two fried eggs a day for breakfast. I had no checkups for five years. I kept meaning to go. The doctor would probably say it was years of bad living. I've always had a good time. Maybe I've had too good a time.

Sonny Mehta

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Sometimes managers are a little shy to criticize another manager or another operation.

Tom Douglas

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I was always a computer kid, and I grew up with the Internet and always found it fascinating.

Robin Sloan

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Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Mo Ibrahim

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We should encourage people who have lived here peacefully for years to earn legal status over time.

Luis Gutierrez

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My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight.

Dorothy Hamill

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Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

Dean Ornish

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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Bob Marley

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I was the kind of kid that always loved babies. I was, you know, four years old, and I would have my baby doll that I would bring with me everywhere and fake breastfeed on the beach and diaper.

Ari Graynor

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The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.

Peter Bart

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