Claire Denis Quotes
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	Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.   
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	My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It's just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys' butts, I think it's a really fun, make-believe world to play.   
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	I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.   
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	Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.   
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	A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.   
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	Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!   
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	I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.   
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	I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.   
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	Americans are not saving enough for retirement.   
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	My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.   
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	The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.   
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	There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.   
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	Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.   
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	Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.   
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	I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.   
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	250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.   
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	So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.   
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	My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-looking guy who's going to sell records based on his image.   
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	Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word.   
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	We just got whipped from the beginning of the game to the end. They did everything right and we did nothing right.   
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	When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me.   
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	Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.   
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	Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.   
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	I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					