Jean Renoir Quotes

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

Jean Renoir

• Perfection
• Cinema
• Handicaps

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• I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
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• Professional competitions are overrated.

  

  Oksana Baiul
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• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Security
  • Calm
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• Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Simple
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• It is always the unreadable that occurs.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Always
  • Occurs
  • Unreadable

• I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.

  

  Becky G
  • Love
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• I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Guy
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• Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Long
  • Love
  • Passion

• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Identity
  • Mysterious
  • Own

• For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Up
  • Important
  • Water

• Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Good
  • Jealous
  • Pure

• I wanna live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • Wanna

• It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Me
  • Actor

• You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Guys
  • Girls

• But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Down
  • Window

• The facts are on our side.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Facts
  • Side
  • Our

• You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Focus

• To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

  

  Walter Scott
  • True
  • Honor
  • Perfection

• I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Opinion

• We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Know
  • Evil
  • Hungry

• You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Affected
  • Declaration
  • Mode

• I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

  

  Jean Renoir
  • Perfection
  • Cinema
  • Handicaps