Agnes Varda Quotes
It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.
Quotes to Explore
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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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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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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You always learn something from mistakes.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.
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No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
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You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.
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I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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Why is it that the very people who have fought so hard and so long for the simple entitlement to love whom they choose to love are the very ones denied that right by those who routinely take their vows for granted?
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I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.
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It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.
