Agnes Varda Quotes
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.
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I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
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We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
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I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night
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The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
