Claire Denis Quotes
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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I know what poverty is.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
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I feel more content with what I wear. I always feel confident. I shop for my age and my body.
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
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My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it'd be 'nice' to relax for an hour, but I just want a 10-minute, high-impact workout; get in, get out. Showers are my cardio.
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I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
