Claire Denis Quotes

When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.

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• I don't get recognised that much in the street.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Get
  • Street
  • Recognised

• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• It is clear that if we are going to understand ocean ecosystems, we need to understand the part that bioluminescence plays in those ecosystems.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Understand
  • Need
  • Ocean

• I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Drive

• When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Opportunity
  • Use
  • Prepared

• Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Just
  • Fame

• You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Attitude
  • Lose
  • Clothes

• It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Knowledge
  • Couple
  • Training

• I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Amazing
  • Body
  • Name

• I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Family
  • Stop
  • Thuggin

• You shall not covet thy neighbor's wife? Well, how about if she goddamn covets me? What do you think about that?

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • She
  • Wife

• Identity is not an object; it is a process with addresses for all the different directions and dimensions in which it moves, and so it cannot so easily be fixed with a single number.

  

  Lynn Margulis
  • Different
  • Single
  • Identity

• No, I don't regret my decision at all, especially after I started this music career. My eyes were as big as saucers.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Music
  • Career
  • Eyes

• To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Work
  • Book

• There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • May

• I grew up with parents who were English professors at Wichita State University, and we were more liberal-minded as a family than most of the people I hung out with in Wichita. During summers, we went off to Telluride, Colorado, where I've returned every summer since I was born.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• If I am offered a biopic on a person people know almost everything about, what is the point doing it? A film on someone about whom very less is known is something that would interest me.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • People

• Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • Time
  • Business
  • American

• I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Remember
  • College
  • Lesbian

• I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Remember
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • People
  • Time
  • She

• I'm being compared to the impossible. I never saw Mays, Aaron or Clemente play. What about the people I face every day? Tim Raines is the best? Mattingly is the best? Why not compare me to my peers?

  

  Eric Davis
  • People
  • Why

• When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.

  

  Claire Denis