Etty Hillesum Quotes
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
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I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.
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I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.
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The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.
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I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.
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Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
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I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women.
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The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
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I am always loath to use the world 'evil,' but if 'evil' is the reverse of 'live,' Guy de Rothschild is thoroughly evil. He stands for the opposite of life.
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Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.
