Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.
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Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
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'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.
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I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
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So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.
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I don't want to sound arrogant and say that I know everything about directing and I've got it cracked, but it was just all in all a joyous experience. To me, the key to directing, to be honest, is just surround yourself with brilliant people and let them do their thing
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I'm a firm believer that things happen as they should. The universe unfolds just as it's supposed to.
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Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.
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Every edit is a lie.
