Frans Lanting Quotes
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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I'm an outsider.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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I had no interest at all in opera or singing. I saw my fellow students struggling with their scores, laboring to memorize operatic roles, and I thought, 'That's not for me!'
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I'm a minimalist kind of person: only one pair of boots, one pair of pants, and if I could, only one shirt.
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Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not easy to get published and very dangerous.
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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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The past haunts the present in mores ways than we realize. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me.
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Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
