Claire Denis Quotes
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
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Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.
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I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.
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You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.
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I'm drawn to bad romances.
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My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.
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There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.
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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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Fifty years from now, if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books, we shall not exist.
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I've always been able to overcome things, and to this day, it still bugs me that I couldn't overcome a ball to the face. But I think things worked out for the best.
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The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.
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I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.
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I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.
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They are interested in conservation and the issues involved in saving monarch habitats in both the United States and Mexico.
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Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.
