Chantal Akerman Quotes

When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.

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• I had to work with a psychiatrist.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Work
  • Had
  • Psychiatrist

• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Digital

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Teach
  • Something
  • Excellent

• I'm easily entertained.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Easily
  • Entertained

• Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Love
  • Hate
  • See

• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Kids
  • Know

• So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Money
  • Want
  • Well

• Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.

  

  Yuna
  • Job
  • Artist
  • Forget

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Losing

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Pride

• Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Thought
  • Creation
  • Heritage

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • People
  • Women
  • Strong

• Evangelicals and conservatives are voting as Americans and are voting to save our nation to control immigration, to stop terrorism, to bring jobs back to the country.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • Country
  • Control
  • Stop

• If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Work
  • Children
  • Kids

• To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

  

  Gene Tunney
  • Good
  • Health
  • Exercise

• When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.

  

  Chantal Akerman
  • People
  • Feminist