Claire Denis Quotes
I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes.
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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I've got to restructure all my personal life now in order to accommodate public service, which is fine.
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Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.
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I’ve actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes.
