Jean-Luc Godard Quotes
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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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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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of war detention.
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Cherish your mistakes, and you won't keep making them over and over again. It's the same with heartbreaks and girls and everything else. Cherish them, and they'll put some wealth in you.
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The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whipping itself into a flaming casserole even as Clinton's standing with the American people remained upright and firm, so to speak.
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Well we never set out to write a concept album. I've always used song writing as a therapeutic release so in that process, I just do my best to be honest with myself and look inside myself and whatever comes out usually just reflects or depicts what I'm going through in my life at that time.
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
