James Van Der Beek Quotes
When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
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Expugnatae urbis praedam ad militem, deditae ad duces pertinere.
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The writing accompanying this oddity was, aside from a stack of press cuttings, in Professor Angell's most recent hand; and made no pretense to literary style. What seemed to be the main document was headed 'CTHULHU CULT' in characters painstakingly printed to avoid the erroneous reading of a word so unheard-of.
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
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I was always interested in architecture, but the editors of the magazines who demanded these subjects for the illustrations of Hopper wanted people waving with their arms.
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I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.
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Diversity definitely makes the best wardrobe - you want to look in and see a range so you can always dress for your mood.
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One of the hardest things for the president is to distinguish the routine issues that come through from the essential issues that affect the long term, and not to let himself get sucked into the battles of the bureaucracy for marginal issues, and to keep them focused and to keep his mind clear on what the fundamental things are that he has to accomplish.
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.
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Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.
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I know there are a lot of tall, beautiful actresses like Uma Thurman and Nicole Kidman who are my height, but they're still half the size of me!
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When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.
