Chantal Akerman
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STANLEY HAUERWAS TAHEREH MAFI KAMI GARCIA My mother was a phenomenal speaker. She used to amaze me. There was not a note in front of her. It w... JOAN MCGEE I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed... JORI NUNES One of the first places that they flew me to after the hurricane was San Antonio. I was separated fr... ROBERT BROWN IRIS APFEL I never thought I’d ever leave Zerc. But after knowing Cricket, it occurred to me that I had no re... ASH GRAY ANGELINA JOLIE When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she ask... NEIL JACKSON I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN DIANE VON FURSTENBERG MARLO THOMAS EDMUND WHITE DENIS JOHNSON I guess she was a life line RICHARD L. RATLIFF ALICE MUNRO WALTER DEAN MYERS JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT JOAN SUTHERLAND NINA LACOUR My first female lover was a Jewish woman. 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I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was ve... CHANTAL AKERMAN I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me. CHANTAL AKERMAN My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything ab... CHANTAL AKERMAN My mother arrived in Brussels in 1938 from a small town near Krakow. But strangely enough, in 1942 o... CHANTAL AKERMAN Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, i... CHANTAL AKERMAN I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother h... CHANTAL AKERMAN I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me... CHANTAL AKERMAN I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer ther... CHANTAL AKERMAN When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films. CHANTAL AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN MALIN AKERMAN All marriages are mixed marriages. 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CHANTAL LAROCQUE Paper flowers make just about any heart smile…and that- is the best gift of all! CHANTAL LAROCQUE CHANTAL KREVIAZUK CHANTAL SUTHERLAND CHANTAL KREVIAZUK CHANTAL SUTHERLAND In the Greek mythology he flew to the sun and fell to his death in the ocean. CHANTAL BLANCHARD Tradition doesn't make for fashion. What matters is the architecture of the garment and that archite... CHANTAL ROUSSEAU That?s funny that you say that, because I was trying to think, what's the theme of this record reall... CHANTAL CLARET I'm bleeding. I'm bleeding behind my ear. CHANTAL CLARET Every day feels like before the first day of school, you know when you like lay your clothes out, yo... CHANTAL CLARET I feel more of a kindred bond with the men people compare me to than the women. If someone says Bon ... CHANTAL CLARET Honestly, I don't purposely write dirty songs. To me none of them are dirty; they're all really swee... CHANTAL CLARET You have to really love both extremes ? recording is really never moving and being in a hole and pla... CHANTAL CLARET There were no girlfriends, no boyfriends, no family ? it was like summer camp except with analogue e... CHANTAL CLARET Well, you can always be a clown. (laughs). CHANTAL BLANCHARD I'm seeing all these shining braces and push-up bras. It's a sea of little pimples in the front row.... CHANTAL CLARET I can hang out in the athletes village and nobody wonders what we're doing there, they know we're th... CHANTAL PETITCLERC CHANTAL KREVIAZUK I am very enthusiastic about India's potential but to succeed abroad, the designers need to be more ... CHANTAL ROUSSEAU One of them really felt like nauseous and not well, and so the mother was advised. The mother saw th... CHANTAL MACKELS This is the peak of what they've learned, their formal discipline of what they've mastered. CHANTAL BLANCHARD It's the best kind of sexuality, the humorous kind. To me, humor is sexy. I never want to take mysel... CHANTAL CLARET I can't stand playing a show when the audience stands there doing the ambivalent -- head bob. It's s... CHANTAL CLARET India is a big buzz right now. It needs to be investigated. CHANTAL ROUSSEAU I'm still here, and it's not happening. CHANTAL PETITCLERC To me, this is the ultimate proof that if you have a strong commitment to your goals and dreams, if ... CHANTAL PETITCLERC It was one of the greatest days of my life to be there in the stadium and to win that gold medal. CHANTAL PETITCLERC Every day, Jeff Adams and I were kicked out of the track because they were saying our tires would da... CHANTAL PETITCLERC Were asking the help of the public because we don't know where this guy is. CHANTAL MACKELS We opened the trunk of the car and her body was inside the trunk and she had traces of violence on i... CHANTAL MACKELS CHANTAL KREVIAZUK People came out in full force. We had the perfect weather for the second weekend. CHANTAL COMEAU The industry is fucking retarded. CHANTAL CLARET I'm seeing all these shining braces and push-up bras. It's a sea of little pimples in the front row.... CHANTAL CLARET I love to create vibrant, whimsical floral compositions that are either executed with one single hue... CHANTAL LAROCQUE MARIE-CHANTAL CLAIRE MARIE-CHANTAL CLAIRE MARIE-CHANTAL CLAIRE MARIE-CHANTAL CLAIRE MARIE-CHANTAL CLAIRE MARIE-CHANTAL CLAIRE True friendship is never serene. MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough... JEANNE FRANÇOISE CHANTAL The human heart will never wrinkle. MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SéVIGNé The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee.
[Fr., La mode d'aimer Racine pass... MME. MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL DE SEVIGNE
I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... 
I never modeled myself after anyone. The person who had most influence on me was my mother, but it w... 
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and ... 
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at he... 
My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to m... 
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... 
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... 
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a... 
There was something about my face,she said, that she couldn't stand. Something about my eyes, the wa... 
She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on... 
My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely differen... 
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... 
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol... 
When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes... 
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... 
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, an... 
My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ... 
From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even wh... 
We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... 
I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... 
I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it, ... 
Grandmam, as I have seen in looking back, was the decider of my fate. She shaped my life, without of... 
I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an... 
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me... 
My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed... 
I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh... 
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,'... 
I turn over and lie flat on my back,staring at the ceiling. When she slept beside me, I slept well. ... 
My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn�... 
For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was ... 
Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked... 
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously throu... 
I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined ... 
If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother in... 
What was she like?"
If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade, ... My mother got my sense of h... 
When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to au... 
She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my ow... 
My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of t... 
And she kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was... 
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... 
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... 
When I was young, I did Baby Guess and Guess Kids - Paul Marciano saw me when I was a baby and decid... 
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo... 
I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own b... 
When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she&... 
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... 
Then I went back to my mother when I was 13 and she was ready for me. 
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau... 
I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how s... 
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade... 
From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her mor... 
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time ... 
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that cu... 
I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious. 
In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-s... 
I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you'... 
I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing. 
When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a ... 
I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at th... 
I'll say it's not easy to keep yourself between 100 and 112 pounds every day of every month ... 
A good jockey has to be physically well balanced. They have to possess a strong upper body and a str... 
Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their o... 
I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South A... 
I always did healthy things. I didn't sit around in nightclubs. Sure, I had my fair share of fun... 
We have a huge family history with Singapore because we have the duty-free shops in the airports. It... 