Carice van Houten Quotes
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Pity is a really odd thing with abused women. You don't want anyone to think that you feel bad - even though you might.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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I'm always preparing for a regular life.
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I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
