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Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.

Jean-Luc Godard

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Jean-Luc Godard
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: December 3
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Europe has memories, America has t-shirts.
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The silent film, it was cut at the age of thirty.
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Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.
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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
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