Saskia de Brauw Quotes
I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
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Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.
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I said these trade deals are going to be terrible: we're going to lose manufacturing jobs, factories abroad; the real wages of Americans are not going to rise. People are coming across the border; it has got to be stopped.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
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Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.
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I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them... I think you should just wait for the person you're...in love with.
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When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.
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I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they're like, 'Oh, hello.' And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they'll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy.
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There's this weird kind of coming-in-from-left-field thing going on, and I love it - I am a huge fan of Christopher Durang.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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My dad loved to 'arrange things' to take us kids to that scared the crap out of us on Halloween. He'd take us to the old 'Hermit's House' at the edge of town. He'd park the car 100 yards down the street and say, 'Go back there and get something off the front porch!'
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I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light!
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.
