Agnes Varda Quotes
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
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Do I enjoy the aggression of English football? No. I like to play football. I like to score goals. I like to do things well.
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In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.
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I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.
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The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
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It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.
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At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
