Cees Nooteboom Quotes
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
Quotes to Explore
-
Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
-
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
-
Conformity is dangerous.
-
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
-
Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
-
The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
-
I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
-
Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
-
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
-
I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
-
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
-
Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?
-
I only go to yoga to drink wine, so I'm good. I just throw the calories right back in.
-
I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.
-
The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
-
Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
-
Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
-
When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.
-
Chrysler builds great cars.
-
Gratitude helps us love well by keeping us focused on the beauty in our relationship and the person we love.
-
I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.
-
We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.
-
I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.
-
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
