Charlie Kaufman Quotes

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

Charlie Kaufman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 19, 1958

Topics

PeopleIdeasWorldThinkDoingWant

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

Jo Brand

GoodPeopleBadKindSeenAlong

If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.

Jerry Hall

GoodAgeExperienceDayMeLearn

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

Robert Jay Lifton

WorkMedicalSchoolCalendarThree

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

Stacy Schiff

ImaginationYourselfToleranceLose

Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.

Tom Stoppard

GoodDirectorGood DirectorSomebody

I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected.

Mike Curb

OpportunityThinkCaliforniaHard

I've never thought about it in training, 'If I do this, then maybe I can be on the SPOTY shortlist.'

Lizzie Armitstead

TrainingThoughtI CanNeverMaybe

I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.

Jason Sudeikis

LiveTimePeopleThinkEndMovies

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

Johnny Vegas

ThroughPopularityFoundQuite

I think, in my own life, I'm pretty political. I think I have some very strong ideals, and I struggle a lot with it. I struggle a lot with feeling like, 'I have a platform; should I be saying more?'

Chris Gethard

LifeStruggleSayingStrongThink

I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

Brendan Gleeson

GoodBlack And WhitePeopleThink

I guess Malayali women like bubbly, happy-go-lucky guys, and I am all of that. I'm yet to discover how I'm such a hit there. The fans there are difficult to win over.

Allu Arjun

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