James Van Der Beek Quotes
Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
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I walk into the office at Southwark Bridge every morning, and I have no idea what's going to happen.
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.
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My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.
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But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.
