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I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

Agnes Varda

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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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People like my films. They understand me through my films it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.
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I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.
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