Carice van Houten Quotes
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
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Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.
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This is a divisive issue, but I really hope for unification. Even though we have been divided for a long time, we are all Koreans, so we should live together in a united Korea.
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There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
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I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.
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On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
