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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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds.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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A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.
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I honestly, purposely have not gone to therapy because I know some crazy stuff's going to be dragged up and, you know, I'll be like, 'Wait, what?'
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Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.
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I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.
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Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.
