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

• In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Live
  • Death

• I would trust Lennon not only to babysit my child but to raise them. Literally, that's who I would want to raise my child.

  

  Jessica St. Clair
  • Trust

• Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Giving
  • Community
  • Constitution

• You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Oppression
  • My Friends

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

  

  Claire Denis