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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Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!
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I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.
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It is true that if you hear our music described, it sounds unappealing. I used to laugh and agree with people when they said it didn't make any sense.
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I was told in high school that the last game during your senior year stays with you forever, which is true.
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I get called 'the girl off the dancing horse.' I just laugh; I think it's really funny. It's true, isn't it? It's great we're getting that recognition.
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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.
