Agnes Varda Quotes
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
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I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in my life. What I learned was more than I would have learned in 10 years in America or Europe, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.
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There was this sausage factory a block away from my childhood apartment. It didn't smell nice, like chorizo or something; it was pretty foul. Just nasty. But that smell reminds me so much of my childhood because every morning when I was going to school, I would smell that.
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I've always thought of modeling as a performance, so I don't mind kind of pretending. I kind of pretend in a lot of my poses that I am a ballerina or a hip-hop dancer or a grunge performer.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
