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Francis Ford Coppola

"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."

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"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."

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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."

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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

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