Ricky Van Veen Quotes
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I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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In China we need to do our own part to try to combat global climate change.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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We have to take care of our own game. There's only one place we've got to stick up for ourselves and that's the pitch.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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As far as love is concerned, one man is as good as another a year after a woman marries him. The best husband is the one who can keep you best.
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