Claire Denis Quotes
I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
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A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.
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I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.
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Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?
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I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.
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I do have to say I have been very fortunate.
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I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.
