Michiel Huisman Quotes
The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other. The actors that are working internationally - that's a small number.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.
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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
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Cause you can be quick, jump the candlestick, burn your back, and fuck Jill on a hill, but you still ain't jack.
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
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The problem is you can't wear your old shoes too often because people say, 'You're still wearing that shoe?'
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I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.
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There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.
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I want to make my mum's life and my life safe.
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I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.
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In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.
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If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
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Alas! that Christians should stand at the door of eternity having more work upon their hands than their time is sufficient for, and yet be filling their heads and hearts with trifles.
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... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by itself is just Pain. But Pain + Distance can = entertainment, voyeurism, human interest, cinéma vérité, a good belly chuckle, a sympathetic smile, a raised eyebrow, disguised contempt.
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I have certain standards for myself so if something drops beneath that standard or if the opportunity doesn't fit who I am authentically at my core - I don't invest time where my brand isn't respected or where what I have to offer isn't appreciated.
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I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.
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It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.
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When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.
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The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other. The actors that are working internationally - that's a small number.
