"The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind."

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Source : "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman". BAFTA Lecture, www.bafta.org. September 30, 2011.

Charlie Kaufman

#Smart Quotes #Real Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.”

Source : Interview with Jason Heller, tv.avclub.com. March 29, 2007.
“The light of God is in you. Let your light shine!”
“Obedience is the road to freedom.”
“Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.”

Source : Izaak Walton (1878). “The complete angler, by I. Walton and C. Cotton. New illustr. ed., with notes by G.C. Davies”
“If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.”
“Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.”
“For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.”
“I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't appreciate that biology also had principles and logic ... [rather than dealing with a] messy thing called life. It just wasn't organized, and I wanted to stick with the nice pristine sciences of chemistry and physics, where everything made sense. I wish I had learned sooner that biology could be fun as well.”

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