Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

Francis Ford Coppola

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Even if I'm in a movie theatre, I'll touch up an hour into the film because I know I could be a little shiny.

Jeffree Star

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Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.

Amanda Harlech

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The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

Mike Huckabee

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When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

Lleyton Hewitt

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Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'

Josh McDowell

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What I do is not curing cancer or rocket science or lead mining - anything tremendously difficult or world changing. I understand where I am in the cosmic order of things, and I'm OK with it.

Jon Hamm

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First and foremost, I'm a real estate person. And that's what I love the most.

Donald Trump

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Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

Claire Trevor

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I love fiction that sounds like fact. As a matter of fact, I also like fact that sounds like fiction.

Ashwin Sanghi

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Tax rates aren't everything with regard to incentives to work. I would probably work at a 100% tax rate next to a nude modeling studio. I'm joking, but you know what I'm saying. There's a lot more to it than just tax rates. It's economics that I do; I don't do nude modeling studio economics. People do respond to taxes.

Arthur Laffer

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President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly.

Peter Arnett

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It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

Rick Springfield

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