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When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do. ↗

— Joel Coen

#get #i #into #let us #movie

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd. ↗

— Joel Coen

#approach #characters #conceiving #creations #even

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people. ↗

— Joel Coen

#character #class #doing #individual #make

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money. ↗

— Catherine Keener

#four #i #lot #maybe #money

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. ↗

— Paul Coffey

#better #get #good #hard #natural

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

#bad #being #conceive #exercise #freely

I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#i do #i see #mean #see #think

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#already #barking #been #campaign #colonialism

When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#awareness #becomes #begin #being #disappears