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Agnes Varda

Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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Draed Innocent Masterpiece Say Sometimes Start Way
It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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Enjoy Living People Seem Sharing Way Work
I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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Alive Cinema Fighting Hope Struggle
I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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Beautiful Expensive Jewelry Lost Service Tip
I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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Coffee Lot Nothing People Rosemary Trying Work
I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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Alone Brother Courageous Much Photographer Thinking Way Worked
I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Cinema Fel Forever Here Loved Movie
There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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Beautiful Celebrity Country Gainsbourg Impossible Nice People Sang Song Sound Translate Word
I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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Film Little Other Own People Pre-Prepared Star System Thing
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Bore Feminist Slow Society
My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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Call Cine Company Herb Hot Rosemary Speed Tamaris Water
Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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Documentary Every Line Fiction Science Texture True
I had flops, I had success.
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Down Flop Success Up
I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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Boxing Competition Cross Kung Fu Learned Ocean Sportif Strong Thinking
An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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Beautiful Children Loved Mean Old People Poetry Reciting Time Wife Woman
You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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Always Eating Even Nothing Vagabonds Way World

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