Jan de Bont Quotes
Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.
Jan de Bont
Quotes to Explore
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
Gary McCord
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
Rachel Sklar
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
Carice van Houten
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Jack Welch
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
Ornette Coleman
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
Carice van Houten
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
G-Eazy
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I hate to travel with stuff.
Manolo Blahnik
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Wayne Dyer
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As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.
Pankaj Mishra
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
Victor Hugo
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
Baltasar Kormakur
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And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.
Philippe Petit
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When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.
Epictetus
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The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
Dinaw Mengestu
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What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just lose their edge because they haven't seen anybody or talked to anybody or been with anybody who isn't a kind of replica of themselves for a long period of time.
Buck Henry
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Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.
Jan de Bont
