Frans Lanting Quotes
Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.
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I think photography is closest to writing, not painting. It's closest to writing because you are using this machine to convey an idea. The image shouldn't need a caption; it should already convey an idea.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.
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There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.
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Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
