Claire Denis Quotes
I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.
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No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.
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At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
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Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
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I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.
