Jacques Rivette Quotes
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc. These things are tools which we can use - for good or evil. But they're nothing like self-aware beings.
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The individual begins that long effort as an Outsider; he may finish it as a saint.
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I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
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I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.
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And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.
