Jacques Rivette Quotes
Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
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The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
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For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.
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We need a regime change in this country.… If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.
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Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.
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You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.
