Carice van Houten Quotes
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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You can't deny RCA's past and its history. I was also on Capitol Records, so I have that past history.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.
