Agnes Varda Quotes
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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What I would say to anybody facing any life challenge or disease is that that is courage - to choose life, to keep looking at what's good.
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To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
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I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it didn't kiss me back so I didn't know what to expect.
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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.
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Ann Sothern's dressing room...was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
