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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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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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 don't really engage with that world of technology, which might be to my detriment.
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I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.
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I haven't been an actor who's been able to pick and choose roles, and being a family man, it's been about putting food on the table.
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When I go back to France now I spend all the my time with press and sponsors. I do not have a lot of time to spend at home with my family.
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Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.
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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.
