Radeke Kaufman Quotes

My brain can't get past the 'if I lose you'. I want to correct her, but I haven't worked out yet what the real end of the sentence is. ~ Amie Kaufman

I want to point the way to something that should forever lure them, when the TV set is broken and the movie is over and the school bell has rung for the last time. ~ Bel Kaufman

Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals. ~ Lloyd Kaufman

Miracles are statistical improbabilities. And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark. There are no absolutes in life, save death. ~ Amie Kaufman

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there. ~ Charlie Kaufman

Whatever they've done to me, Tarver, whatever I am
I love you. Don't forget that. ~ Amie Kaufman

Convince people and you win their minds. Inspire people and you win their hearts. ~ Ron Kaufman

This is a wilderness waiting to swallow me; I'd barely make a dent trying to fight it. There are no rules for me to learn, no points to be scored, no bluffs to be called. This is a hell I've never imagined. And I think I'm going to die here. ~ Amie Kaufman

You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new. ~ Josh Kaufman

A river season will last as long as it takes you to reach your new
place. If you get into the river and let it take you where you need to
be, your river season will last an afternoon. But if you fear change
and struggle and hold on to the rocks, the river season will last and
last. It will not end until your body becomes exhausted, your grip
weakens, your hands slide off the rocks and the current takes you to
your new place. ~ Andrew Kaufman

Reliance upon chance is a certain recipe for calamity and an exercise in simpleminded delusion. ~ Amie Kaufman

I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short. ~ Amie Kaufman

There are never clear skies on Avon, no blue, no stars. But we don't give up hope, and we use those words to remind ourselves. Clear skies will come, one day. ~ Amie Kaufman

Tm not a teach. I'm a teacher. And I have a name. How would you like it if I called you "Hey, pupe!"?
"I'd like it fine."
"Why?"
"It shows you're with it. ~ Bel Kaufman

After I defended my title the first time when I beat Sarah Kaufman, I went back to my room, and my friend ordered all these trays of hot wings. They came into the room, and the little hotel sheet thing was draped over it, and I go to open it up, and it's breaded and boneless. I cried. ~ Ronda Rousey

Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity "Love Ride" by donating a painting to this cause. ~ Jay Leno

KAUFMAN
Sir, what if a writer is attempting to create a story where nothing much happens, where people don't change, they don't have any epiphanies. They struggle and are frustrated and nothing is resolved. More a reflection of the real world -

MCKEE
The real world?

KAUFMAN
Yes, sir.

MCKEE
The real fucking world? First of all, you write a screenplay without Conflict or Crisis, you'll bore your audience to tears. Secondly: nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day! There's genocide, war, corruption! Every fucking day somewhere in the world somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else! Every fucking day someone somewhere makes a conscious decision to destroy someone else! People find love! People lose it! For Christ's sake! A child watches her mother beaten to death on the steps of a church! Someone goes hungry! Somebody else betrays his best friend for a woman! If you can't find that stuff in life, then you, my friend, don't know CRAP about life! And WHY THE FUCK are you wasting my two precious hours with your movie? I don't have any use for it! I don't have any bloody use for it!

KAUFMAN
Okay, thanks. ~ Charlie Kaufman

The trouble comes when we confuse learning with skill acquisition. If you want to acquire a new skill, you must practice it in context. Learning enhances practice, but it doesn't replace it. If performance matters, learning alone is never enough. ~ Josh Kaufman

Satire is what closes on Saturday night. ~ George S. Kaufman

Streets paved with opal sadness,
Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy,
And jazz. ~ Bob Kaufman

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect. ~ Bel Kaufman

Apparently she's got revenge on her mind, and it's really annoying when people try to talk at you while you're feeling murderish. ~ Amie Kaufman

It is entirely possible to be alone in a crowded room. Your solitude only compounded by the faces around you. The presence of others serving only to remind you of how lonely you truly are. ~ Amie Kaufman

You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. Whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. So it's decidedly non-pragmatic. ~ Charlie Kaufman

I would say inhuman. But your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago. ~ Amie Kaufman

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

I collect new books the way my girlfriends buy designer handbags. ~ Jennifer Kaufman

I do not blame her for hating me.
I try to speak every time.
But the song is always the same. ~ Amie Kaufman

The mere sight of her is water in an endless desert. ~ Amie Kaufman

You can't root yourself
In the ground, hoping the world
Will grow around you.

You were made to do
More than hide in the shadows
Of another's leaves ~ Caroline Kaufman

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect. ~ Bel Kaufman

Always aim for 100 percent and you'll always know where to improve. ~ Ron Kaufman

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. ~ Charlie Kaufman

To quote a noted Jewish humorist, Sholom Aleichem: "First comes health. You can always hang yourself later." As ~ Bel Kaufman

I'll keep your secrets. Shut my mouth. But I can't shut my eyes. ~ Amie Kaufman

All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen. ~ Barry Neil Kaufman

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with. ~ Roy Lichtenstein

Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters. ~ Milos Forman

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger. ~ Irving Kaufman