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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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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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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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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There's a fashion for a macho style of filmmaking. How long can your longest take be? And shooting things in one shot. For me, if you can sort of disappear and make people feel that they are there, that involves massive amounts of work.
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Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey.
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I've been lucky enough that in the U.K., I've done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great - the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.
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I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I either talk a lot of rubbish - which I'm sure I do a lot of the time anyway - or I stare at the soup. I'm no good at social presentation.
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The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.
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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.
