Claire Vaye Watkins Quotes

#1. Now, I've made mistakes. I've lost people. But you've thrown them away. There is an important difference.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#2. When I met Bono at the Cannes Film festival while I was there for the film 'United 93,' he said to me, 'That's a great film, brother. Thank you for your courage in making it.' I plotzed.

David Alan Basche

#3. He would, he realized, find them or spend the rest of his life looking, and this might not take so long. So be it. All he had ever needed, in that desert or this, was some say in how it went, some reassurance that he would go doing something worthwhile. A sappy idea, but not therefore false.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#4. You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#5. The sooner that Layla understands that we are nothing but the sum of that which we endure, the better.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#6. If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.

Shirley Temple

#7. Everyone there pretended to be so bohemian and radical but really they were all worried about offending everyone else and she was fucking sick of it.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#8. They'd drink like men, like their fathers and uncles, like George fucking Washington ...

Claire Vaye Watkins

#9. Everything I can say about what it means to lose, what it means to do without, the inadequate weight of the past, you already know.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#10. What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can't be mass marketed.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#11. If I had been under ObamaCare, and a bureaucrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.

Herman Cain

#12. In California gold was what God was in the rest of the country: everything, everywhere.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#13. You don't love people," he said. "You love what they do to you.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#14. I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.

Sam Amidon

#15. The mind is a mine. So often we revisit its winding, unsound caverns when we ought to stay out.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#16. There was always some savior out in the wilderness, some senator, some patent, some institute, some cell.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#17. He loved her as though it had never occurred to him that he could feel otherwise. She wanted to be someone who deserved a love like that.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#18. Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#19. Jules liked that I was a local. I made her feel authentic, which is especially important to Californians.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#20. She was brave from wine and unseasonable sunshine and the newfound closeness of home.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#21. A promise unkept will take a man's mind.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#22. Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#23. I don't know, maybe it's easier to be lost than found. At least there's energy in lostness. Something to be done.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#24. The dog wants so bad it doesn't know what it wants,

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#25. Music isn't fragile.

David Byrne

#26. If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.

Frank Spotnitz

#27. What was attraction if not a form of telepathy? The wild luck of two people feeling the exact same thing at the exact same time. That word again: purpose.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#28. When I write, I talk about stories and things that are happening in my life. I come from the church. There was a time in my life when I actually had that transformation and relationship with God.

Leon Bridges

#29. Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage

Min Jin Lee

#30. Luz's father had had it; it was how he kept himself atop everyone around him. He believed harder in stupider things, and there was somehow authority in this.

Claire Vaye Watkins