Jean Renoir Quotes
I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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I never was a very good singer.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
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It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
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If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.
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I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.
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What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.
