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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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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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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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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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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If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
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I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd be ashamed of them, I throw them out, but if they're mediocre and they'll serve the purpose for which they're designed, that is, a mixing bowl or a soup bowl or a plate or whatever, I sell them. And this income from the sale of these pots permits me to go on and make other pots. It's even more important now that I've quit teaching, because I do not have a teacher's salary to fall back on.
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We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'
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A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.
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Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.
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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.
