Claire Denis Quotes

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

Claire Denis

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• I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Gold

• Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Feeling
  • Dad
  • Reading

• Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Impatient
  • Relentless

• I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Free

• Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • War
  • Success
  • Greatness

• I love badminton. That's my sport!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • I Love
  • Sport
  • Badminton

• Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Confidence
  • Doubt
  • Balance

• The one thing you can control is effort.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • You
  • Control
  • Effort

• I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Book
  • Vision
  • Discrimination

• One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Possible

• The older supermodels sometimes don't agree with the fact there is a new generation of models. We're not saying we're supermodels. I'd rather people look at us as businesspeople, and, yes, modeling is our business right now, but we're not trying to take anybody's spot, and we're not trying to discredit the past.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• I don't appeal to everyone well. I appeal to fewer people in a much stronger way. That's what fandom is to me, and what creates fans for everything I make.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Way
  • Fans

• We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • World
  • Look

• No such thing as a Dixiecrat.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Thing

• My closest friend and brother – this world is lucky to have a great personality as Kim Il Sung. This causes my boundless happiness. The fate of the world revolution and the international communist movement are on your shoulders, Comrade Kim Il Sung. I wish you long life and good health.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • History
  • Man

• No, I don’t mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Hate

• Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning.

  

  Annette Bening
  • People
  • Life

• I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Country

• It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Work
  • Night
  • Man

• The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.

  

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Revelation

• I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

  

  Claire Denis