Claire Denis Quotes
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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On the field, you have to be aggressive; you're thinking how to get the better of a situation. It's not that I don't laugh on the field. In fact, I think it's very important to laugh, especially when you are angry and aggressive, to just take the tension away, make the moment go away.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.
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We don't sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I'll never find a Taylor Swift. You can't find a new Madonna, you cannot find a Prince, a Bob Marley, a John Lennon. You won't find another Kanye West. We simply deal with people as they walk in, and we say we either love them or we don't.
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When a woman falls in love with me, I feel guilty. I am convinced that it's pure obstinacy that keeps me from reciprocating her passion. As I explain to her that I'm gay, it sounds, even to me, like a silly excuse; I scarcely believe it myself.
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We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.
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Dance is my passion.
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
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I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.
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Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
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Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.
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I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.
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When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.
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I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino.
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I'm a very sinister person.
