Cees Nooteboom Quotes
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Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.
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The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
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I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
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Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.
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Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.
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One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.
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People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
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Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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And in that town a dog was found,As many dogs there be,Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,And curs of low degree.
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I had brothers and sisters and did chores and had to pick up the dog crap in the yard and mow the lawn and do all the normal things that kids have to do.
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My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.
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With 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' then 'Memories of Tomorrow,' I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.
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I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.
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There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror.
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I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.
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If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.
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I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.
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Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.
