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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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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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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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
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Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.
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In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I wrote my dissertation on William Faulkner's early novels.
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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.
