Camille Henrot Quotes
I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about life on earth.
Quotes to Explore
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.
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Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
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Shakespeare feels very natural to me.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.
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I kind of miss the hatchet days of Mr. Fairchild at 'WWD', when they really took no prisoners and there was sort of outrageous favoritism and its inverse.
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I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.
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I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.
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I don't know about actually doing real productive work on my own car.
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The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
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I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about life on earth.
