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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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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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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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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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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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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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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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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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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He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
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Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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I've had this happen before. I'll give it one day and be ready to go (today).
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At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
