Agnes Varda Quotes
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The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am.
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The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.
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In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
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At home I mostly stick to online Scrabble, or chess or Risk - games I find far less addictive than the spectacular games created for consoles these days. But, whenever I get the chance, I head over to my friend Kyri's house to play his PS3.
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Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.
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I started off doing theater as a kid, and I always played a character. I hid behind the script and was told where to go. But to actually perform as yourself is very difficult. I didn't used to enjoy it, but now I do.
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We need to restart political processes to end wars.
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There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.
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True flexibility is a symbiotic partnership between employer and employee and between technology and culture.
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I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesn't necessarily bother me.
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My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.
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What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.
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My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.
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When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.
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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.
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Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.
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If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
