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As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

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I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

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It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one. ↗

— George S. Kaufman

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Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

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Sen. Edward Kennedy knows very directly. Senator Kennedy and I talked on several occasions prior to the war that my view was that the best evidence that I had seen was that Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— David Kay

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But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.' ↗

— Ari Fleischer

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