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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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
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Not that I don't care about winning or I don't care about doing well, but I have to care less about the things that happen that are outside of my control.
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War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
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Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart. The continuity such an impression ignores is a literary continuity.
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In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.
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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.
