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 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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Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
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The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.
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A good one was the album Adrenalize title. I wanted to call the album Dementia. I like the idea of having a trilogy of albums ending with 'ia'. Phil thought it was cool but wondered if it was a little contrived, like we were running out of good ia-sounding words. Joe hated it with a passion. After two and a half hours of discussion, he was so pissed off that we were still talking about this one word that he just turned around and said, 'Well, as far as I'm concerned, you might as well call the album BOB!!
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Being broke is a joke, I never found it funny / That's why I count my blessings / As much as I count my money...
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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
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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.
