Coen brothers

My most important professional accomplishment? I think that it's that I'm so scintillating and engaging in an interview.

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That movie has more of an enduring fascination for other people than it does for us.

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Our mother tried to get us to come here for many, many years … But, you know, life intervenes — we've been busy.

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Something pretty fucking weird is going on. Put your coat on and I'll drop you at home. But don't talk to either of 'em until I do. And don't worry. Believe me. These things always have a logical explanation. Usually.

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Prison life is more structured than most men care for…

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We're only interested in one thing, Bart. Can you tell a story? Can you make us laugh? Can you make us cry? Can you make us want to break out in joyous song? Is that more than one thing? Okay!

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Mind if I sit down? I'm carrying quite a load here.

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I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don't you know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well, I just don't understand it.

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Look, let me explain something to you. I'm not Mr. Lebowski. You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. That, or His Dudeness … Duder … or El Duderino, if, you know, you're not into the whole brevity thing.

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Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.

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The Dude abides.

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Damn! We're in a tight spot!

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Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

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The more you look, the less you really know.

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The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willin' to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet somethin' I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say: "O.K., I'll be part of this world."

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What's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss?

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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

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The coin don't have no say! It's just you!

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You go for a man hard enough and fast enough, he don't have time to think about how many's with him; he thinks about himself, and how he might get clear of that wrath that's about to set down on him.

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