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Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

Francis Ford Coppola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Growing Up Remember Television

I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

Good Friend Best Fun Best Friend Go

He was competitive in every fight and brought his best every time out, so I have nothing personal against Froch. I actually like him a lot because he reminds me a lot of myself with his competitiveness.

Time Myself Best Fight Me Personal

It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

Democracy Here Middle Middle East

My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.

Mother Tough Three She Two Cookie

My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and her running downstairs to go after it. I have no memory before that. I was 4. My father had a lot of girlfriends and my mother had a lot of boyfriends.

Father Mother Teacher Memory Window

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

Chris Bohjalian

Day Words Opinion Reality End You

In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.

School Child Choices Choose Choice

Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.

Good Football College Guitar Year

The most important thing is readers. I've got a huge Twitter following, but I don't really think it sells books; I don't think a huge Facebook following sells books - although these things aren't bad, of course.

Think Bad Important Things Facebook

I've started collecting taxidermy: I've got a red squirrel, called Steve. I made sure he came with certificates so we know he wasn't just killed for stuffing.

Red Squirrel Know Started Sure Just

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

William Scranton

Morning Worst Thursday Over Gotten

Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to the poor, they have a propensity to consume that's much higher than the wealthy, though I wish they would talk to my wife about that; she seems to have a propensity to consume.

Money Wife Wish Poor Talk She

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