Carice van Houten Quotes
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I know I look super young.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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Hate crimes impact not just individuals but entire communities. When a family is attacked because of the color of their skin, it's not just the family that feels violated, but every resident of that neighborhood.
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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
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I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
