Cees Nooteboom Quotes
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I've always loved makeup. I'm very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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As far as actors who pop up again and again in Japanese dubs, and because they're really good actors, people like Steve Bloom, not only in 'Cowboy Bebop,' but also he's sort of the de-facto Wolverine. If you're doing an animated Wolverine anything, Marvel usually just goes to Steve first because he's recognized as that voice.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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I am married.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.
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The best cinema is about ethics.
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I'll be peeing like a champion in no time
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I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.
