Chantal Akerman Quotes
I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
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I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot!
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I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
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Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing.
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I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.
