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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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds.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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I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.
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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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I refuse to be outworked, and I consider myself to have the heart of a lion.
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When we did this reboot, I thought 'Ghostbusters' fans would be so excited: 'They've got the new technology - the ghosts are going to look real now.'
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My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.
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Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.
