Agnes Varda Quotes
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Shakespeare has been adapted by Akira Kurosawa. 'Dangerous Liaisons' has been adapted into a Chinese movie. 'Blood Simple', the Coen brothers movie, was adapted by Zhang Yimou.
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I loathe having to go out and get dressed up. I'd much rather stay home and watch CNN.
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I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.
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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
