"I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that."

-- Charlie Kaufman

#Writing Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.”
“the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.”
“High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.”
“I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is no yesterday and no tomorrow â€” there is just the moment that you are in. In that beautiful moment, you experience your true insignificance to the rest of the universe. It is then, and only then, that you can experience your true significance.”
“Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.”
“Property isn't theft: it's nothing.”
“This is a corny actor thing to say, but the first step is that you can't judge the character that you're playing. If it's built in three-dimensional fashion, you'll just play a character who's going out and seeking the best version of their life that they can find. That gives the character an accessibility that everyone can identify with.”
“The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.”

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