Marina Vlady: Juliette Jeanson
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Quotes
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Juliette : Words never say what I'm really saying.
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Juliette Janson : I've changed and I'm still the same.
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Juliette Janson : Language is the house man lives in.
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Juliette Janson : In my dreams I used to feel that I was being sucked into a huge hole. Now I feel I'm beng scattered in a thousand pieces. Before, even if it was a slow process, I would wake up all at once. Now I'm afraid there'll be pieces missing.
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Juliette Janson : Something may make me cry, but the reason for my tears is not contained in their traces on my cheeks. In other words, you can describe what happens what I do something, without necessarily indicating what makes me do it.
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Juliette Janson : To define myself, one word: indifference.
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Juliette Janson : I know they're my eyes because I see with them. I know they're not my knees or whatever, because I've been told so. Suppose I hadn't been told. How would life be?
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Juliette Janson : To define oneself in a word: not yet dead.
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Juliette Janson : We often try to analyze the meaning of words but are too easily led astray. One must admit that there's nothing simpler than taking things for granted.
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Juliette Janson : I don't know where or when, just that it happened. I have tried all day to recapture the feeling. There was a scent of trees. I was the world, the world was me. A landscape is like a face.
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Juliette Janson : No one knows what the city of the future will be like. Part of the wealth of meaning it once had will undoubtedly be lost, undoubtedly. Maybe the creative and formative roles of the city will be taken over by other forms of communication, maybe television and radio...
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Juliette : I was doing the dishes. I started to cry. I heard a voice say to me, "You're indestructible." Me, myself, I. All of us.
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Juliette : My impressions don't always relate to a specific object. For instance, desire. Sometimes we know the object of our desire. Sometimes we don't.
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Juliette : I had a funny feeling. I thought about it all day. The feeling of my ties to the world. Suddenly I felt I was the world and the world was me. It would take pages and pages to describe it. Volumes and volumes. A landscape is like a face.
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Robert : We made it.
Juliette : Made it where?
Robert : Home.
Juliette : Now what do we do?
Robert : Sleep. What's got into you?
Juliette : And then what?
Robert : We wake up.
Juliette : Then what?
Robert : The same thing. We start over. We wake up again. We eat.
Juliette : And then what?
Robert : I don't know. - - We die.
Juliette : And then what?
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Juliette : Point to my eyes? I know they're my eyes because I see with them. I know they're not my knees because I was told they're not. - Calm down - What if I hadn't been told? And what about living?
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Juliette Janson : Thought meshes with reality or calls it into question.
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Juliette Janson : Speak as though quoting the truth. Old father Brecht said that, that actors should quote.
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Juliette : Thoughts agree with reality or challenge it. To challenge.
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Juliette : No event exists in itself. It's linked with everything around it.
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Juliette : Maybe the observer of this spectacle is me.
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Juliette : What does it mean to know something?
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Roger : Hear anything? What is it?
Robert : Saigon-Washington.
Roger : Who's speaking?
Robert : Johnson.
Roger : What's he saying?
Robert : "In '65 to force Hanoi to negotiate it was with a heavy heart that I ordered my pilots to bomb North Vietnam."
Roger : And?
Robert : "It was tremendous but Hanoi wouldn't negotiate. In '66 it was again with a heavy heart that I ordered my pilots to bomb Haiphong and Hanoi."
Roger : Let me listen a bit. "It was tremendous, but Hanoi wouldn't negotiate. In July '67 I ordered my pilots, again with a heavy heart, to raze Chinese atomic installations. It was tremendous, but Hanoi wouldn't negotiate."
Robert : "In '67 to force Hanoi to negotiate and again with a heavy heart, I ordered my pilots to bomb Peking."
Roger : And?
Robert : "It was tremendous, but Hanoi wouldn't negotiate. Now my missiles are aimed at Moscow."
Roger : And?
Robert : "President Johnson says that Hanoi must understand that his patience is limited." Shit! I can't hear now.
Juliette : [reading] "Should I wear tromp-l'oeil ankle-sock designs on pantyhose designed by Louis Ferraud? They make daring dresses decent and make calves look pert and charming."
Robert : Cut the crap!
Juliette : It's in "Madame Express."
Robert : Never heard of it.
Juliette : You've got no culture.
