Dries van Noten Quotes
For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men.

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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.
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If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
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It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
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If Satan can get us to interpret our mission task as populating heaven with as many people as possible, we will resort to going only to those places of receptivity and harvest and neglect doing what is needed to reach the unreached and penetrate the dominions of darkness with the light of the gospel.
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Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
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For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men.