Claire Denis Quotes
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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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.
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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.
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Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.
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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.
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Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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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.
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The one thing you can control is effort.
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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.
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One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
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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.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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I love One Direction. I like Eminem.
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I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.
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My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.
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Error is but the shadow of the truth.
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Things change. You can try to slow it down but you can’t ’cause this crazy world only spins one way. I swear the only thing that always stays the same is things change.
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I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.
