Agnes Varda Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.
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An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.
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Creativity is the most practical thing a businessman can employ.
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If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
