Nicky Romero (Nick Rotteveel van Gotum) Quotes
The beauty of running your own label and your own show is that you are in charge. I get sent a huge amount of musicfrom new and established talent every day, so if I like a track, I play it - no questions asked.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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Oh my goodness me, Daniel Day-Lewis – huge, huge fan of his. I've always loved his philosophy on acting: he always talks about returning to a state of play.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
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I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.
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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
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It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.
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For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.
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When you're feeling down, sad, lonely, negative, you don't want to take care of yourself - and the weight problem and the diabetic problem and the heart attack and stroke problems and high cholesterol set in.
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It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
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The beauty of running your own label and your own show is that you are in charge. I get sent a huge amount of musicfrom new and established talent every day, so if I like a track, I play it - no questions asked.
