Claire Denis Quotes
I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps to approach a character, to foresee the type of image - you see what I mean - it's like a part of the process.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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Any reaction is better than none.
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I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
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Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
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I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.
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I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps to approach a character, to foresee the type of image - you see what I mean - it's like a part of the process.
