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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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
