Chantal Akerman Quotes
My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In a way, my life belongs to her. When I was a child, she complained that I was anorexic, so they sent me to places to get me to eat. When I look at pictures of myself, I was just a normal-looking child. It was her fantasy.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
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I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called 'It', and cats – as well as women – always knew when he came into the room.
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I want to be happy. We all want to be happy. I want to be treated like a normal human being, but I also want to be on stage in a fancy dress, so I'm trying to find a happy medium.
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I wish people would shift that focus on to themselves and their own family and their own friends and just maybe spend a little more time on their home front. And not some distant planet that is me.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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As soon as I found out there was a school you could go to to become a WWE superstar, I was immediately hooked.
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My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In a way, my life belongs to her. When I was a child, she complained that I was anorexic, so they sent me to places to get me to eat. When I look at pictures of myself, I was just a normal-looking child. It was her fantasy.
