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 You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds.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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If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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I think one of the problems with the definition of autism is we keep expanding it. It started as "early infantile autism", and then it became "autism", and now it's "autism spectrum disorder". I'm not opposed to that from the standpoint of trying to broaden our vistas, and so forth. But from a research point of view, the term autism is lost in specificity.
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Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.
