Bertrand Tavernier Quotes
Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.
Quotes to Explore
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
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I'm always going to love my father.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
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The characteristic poetic strategy of our time-refine your singularities-is something Auden has not learned; so his best poems are very peculiarly good, nearly the most interesting poems of our time. When he writes badly, we can afford to be angry at him, and he can afford to laugh at us.
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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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An unaffected man in a negative light Could not have borne his labor nor have died Sighing that he should leave the banjo’s twang.
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I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.
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I sacrificed to the mania of the age, which is to overload things. My modeling is there, the eloquence of the gesture also. The rest would only spoil the essential things. It is a stroke of genius. I am going to write to the under-secretary of state that my monument is ready.
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Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!
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I'm so pleased to see us talking gender specific messages that are focusing on men on a way I think it needs to be focused in on and I think it's important.
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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.
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My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.
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Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.
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Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way.
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Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.
