James Van Der Beek Quotes
I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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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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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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For me and my husband, one of my biggest peeves is that I can't stand for an old friend or a woman to walk in the room and just run up and speak to my husband, but they don't talk to me.
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Greenlanders' heart is the environment. You can't sell your heart for oil.
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I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.
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I always show up to work and give it everything, and some things turn out better than others - and some things you can expect that it will come out better than others.
