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Chantal Akerman Quotes

I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what.

Chantal Akerman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: belgian
Birth: June 6, 1950 - October 5, 2015

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School People Me Talking Know Never

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

Possibilities Moments Boredom Know

When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Travel Now Leaving Land Without Up

I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

Glasses Flying Think Key You Drunk

It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.

Stephanie Mills

Life Love Son Best Child Mom

Things don't go on forever, and the quicker you accept that change is inevitable, the happier you're gonna be.

Change You Inevitable Go Accept

I clearly have a point of view; I am very passionate about my point of view. I am a commentator.

I Am View Point Of View Passionate

Washington, D.C. is what is broken, not the immigration policies. We have good laws. We have people suffer every day because of government's failure to enforce the law and be respectful to the process we have. We have a pathway to citizenship already in place.

Failure Good Day Broken Government

We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.

Society Divided Half Being Must Our

Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.

Men Woman Angry Laugh Upset Office

I am a firm believer in slavery.

I Am Slavery Firm Believer Am

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.

Achievement Equality People American

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

Age Speak Remember Year I Can Only

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