James Van Der Beek Quotes
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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I'm not a nice person.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, quite big and quite loud, and maybe people pick up on that when they cast me. I'm certainly not the quiet reflective type.
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There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
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When anyone pitches me - and I've heard it a million times: 'It's the black Seinfeld,' or, 'It's the new version of something that's already been successful' - I immediately shut it off. I won't ever entertain doing 'the new version of such-and-such.'
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I never wear white or black socks.
