Jan de Bont Quotes
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
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The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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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.
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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.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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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.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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Even though the third season of 'Necessary Roughness' was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.
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Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
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If you give Chip a boundary, he's going to break that boundary. If you give him a rule, he's not going to follow it. And if you tell him, 'You can't go over this line,' he's going to put his toe over it.
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I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
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Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.
