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Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.

Francis Ford Coppola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1939

Topics

Imagination Talent Ideas More Up

My father was the one who used to stand up in the middle of a number to flutter his lips and make sputtering sounds into lyrics.

Father Stand Up Stand Lips Middle

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

Myself Discipline Job Painting You

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life Fire Man Window Suicide Guilty

One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why - is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective.

Music Great Poetry Feeling Why

Civil disobedience is, in fact, a conservative idea, a few steps short of overt rebellion. It honors the rule of law by insisting on good law and rejecting bad law.

Good Law Short Bad Rule Of Law Rule

The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you're making a golf swing. Your neck, your spine, your hands, your knees, everything.

Stress Golf Hands You Swing Neck

Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.

Become Matters See Point Vietnam

I was given a chance to re-haul 'New Mutants' and take it from the dog of the 'X-Men' office to 1 million copies with its final issue.

Dog Chance New Office Final Take

The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills.

Medical Bills Cause

Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It followed you around. In film you have to be more aware of what the camera is doing.

Louise Fletcher

Live Thinking Doing Camera You More

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Friendship History Peace Committee

I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

Life My Life Become Never Show Like

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