Camille Henrot Quotes
A lot of my work deals with this emotion of discouragement or fear, and this emotion cannot be approached without humor because then things become indigestible. You don't want to eat them; you don't want to be in contact with them.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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I would like to reconcile the church and the circus. I wanted to transform the theatre... to get my message across that there is only one God - the living man - the person sitting next to you. That is my religion. I believe that there is a sense to life.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
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Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.
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Acoustic space is totally discontinuous, like touch. It is a sphere without centers or margins.
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Community, responsibility, flexibility, tenacity - these are all things that I imbue my characters with. They are basically good, nonjudgmental people who succeed at the end of the day, sometimes in spite of themselves.
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It's easy to lose a civilization. The values of Western civilization have brought so much good to the world: the notions of equality, democracy, tolerance, abolition of slavery... Tolkien knew that civilization is worth fighting for. There are times when a generation is challenged and must fight to defend their civilization from annihilation.
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Yes, for blacks, racism functions without the actual presence of whites, just as for whites it functions without the actual presence of blacks! Beliefs, conventions, history do the work.
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A lot of my work deals with this emotion of discouragement or fear, and this emotion cannot be approached without humor because then things become indigestible. You don't want to eat them; you don't want to be in contact with them.
