Dries van Noten Quotes
You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.
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It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
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No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it.
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Marvel has put out good product. DC has put out good product. Even Image has put out good product, as far as I'm concerned... although it's few and far between. But it's not getting recognized, no matter who's doing it.
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You'd think after 100 shows you'd be used to this, but it's not true for me. It always feels like the first show.
