Claire Denis Quotes

The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.

Claire Denis

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FocusPeopleMeCinemaSometimes

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

John Kenneth Galbraith

PowerPower CorruptsExpectation

It is splendid to be supportive when you see those around you doing well, but blind praise is easier than harsh facts.

Robert Rinder

FactsBlindDoingYouPraiseSee

To be successful in football, you have to do things that put the team first. Everyone has to play their role, and if they don't do it, you're not going to win.

Robert Kraft

FootballTeamWinYouPlayFirst

The places we'd play were full of bikers, brawlers, and drinkers coming off a day of work looking for a good time, and all these guys would be looking at me like Hannibal Lecter looking at his next victim.

Angus Young

WorkGoodTimeDayMeLooking

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

Slavoj Zizek

GoodFocusI AmYouSaySilent

I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.

Michelle Forbes

FunCareerFindBloodTruePossible

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.

Jasmine Guy

CommunityMeFreeImportantRight

Our target customers are people in their 20s. Old people wanted to be 21 again, and young people wanted to be 21 forever.

Do Won Chang

PeopleTargetYoungOld PeopleOld

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Derek Bok

HappyPeopleInequalityEuropeMade

I have so many books that are sitting around half-read.

Colman Domingo

SittingBooksManyAround

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Chuck Palahniuk

LoveStepThinkYouBackPool

I really respect the Coen brothers as directors and as creative individuals and with the way that they handle the industry and the business side of things.

Allison Tolman

BusinessRespectCreativeWaySide

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