Agnes Varda Quotes

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

Agnes Varda

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• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • America
  • More

• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Door
  • Step
  • First Step

• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Done
  • Fear
  • Spirit

• Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Done
  • Makeup
  • Down

• I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Overweight

• I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Design
  • Start

• My best friend is my husband.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Husband

• This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Time
  • Community
  • Genius

• If you don't like what you do, you're probably dragging your feet.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Feet

• I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Try

• A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Being
  • Walk
  • Himself

• I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.

  

  Kaskade
  • Great
  • Music
  • Stand

• I love playing sport.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Love
  • Playing
  • Sport

• There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Dream
  • Action
  • Yourself

• I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Mirror

• A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.

  

  David Whyte
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Taken

• I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Die
  • Voice
  • Terrible

• So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Die
  • Mean
  • Ifs

• I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner.

  

  James Ellroy
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Missing
  • Melancholy