Agnes Varda Quotes
I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I am very much a Republican.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I'm all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.
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One thing I don't do is quit.
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But the thing is that I’m in love with Rafael’s story. I think I understand when Adam says that all our stories are different but in some ways our stories are all the same. I never really got that. But when I start to read Rafael’s journal, it’s as if I can see myself. It’s better than a mirror.
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In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.
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I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
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I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
