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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It's a dream of mine to win a Grammy one day. I'm not saying I'm Grammy-worthy, but it would be a dream come true.
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I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.
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That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
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When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.
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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.
