Claude Lanzmann Quotes
I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.

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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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I never really had a strong accent.
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Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
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The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.
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When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
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I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
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I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
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Look for players with character and ability. But remember, character comes first.
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Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.
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You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning.
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Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.
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I'm very proud to be from Jacksonville.
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You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.
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I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.
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I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.