Claude Simon Quotes

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

Claude Simon

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• Perception
• Incomplete
• Selective
• Deformed

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• I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Thinking
  • Drama
  • New York

• Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Alone

• I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

  

  Banksy
  • Love
  • Way
  • Capitalism

• The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Popular
  • Seems
  • Celebration

• The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

  

  Wayne White
  • Purpose
  • Leave
  • Drive

• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

  Adam McKay
  • School
  • High
  • Comedy

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Friend
  • Years
  • Sad

• As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Gold
  • Trade
  • Self-Sufficient

• I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Always
  • Leave

• I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Business
  • Sound

• When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Alone

• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Learn

• Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Writing

• It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Career
  • Doing
  • Angels

• Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Remember
  • Reality
  • Alone

• There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Great
  • Now
  • Mexican

• We must be loyal to the forum of our government.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Government
  • Loyal
  • Forum

• Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Wall

• This is a Christian country and Christian teaching is very clear on these matters and I am extremely concerned that young people today are being bombarded with literature which suggests that a homosexual relationship is the same as a heterosexual relationship, which it is not.

  

  Gerald Howarth
  • Relationship
  • Matter
  • Homosexual

• I love my sleep.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • I Love

• Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Wife

• The rule of mosh pits, that every band preaches, is if someone falls, pick them back up. There are these little things throughout our video that leans towards the world we live in today. People who are obviously sick and tired of certain things that are going on in their life can escape from that, have a good time and leave their worries and troubles behind.

  

  Jason McCaslin Sum 41
  • Life
  • Escape
  • Video

• To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

  

  Claude Simon
  • Memory
  • Perception
  • Incomplete