Claire Denis Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
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Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.
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The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.
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Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
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There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.
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Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same.
