Wim Crouwel Quotes
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.
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There was a scene in 'Qubool Hai' where Asad shoots his father. After shooting for it, I was drained completely. At times, my character's mood gets very depressing. Post shoot, it takes a good half hour to get out of character, to leave Asad behind.
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No Muslim country has ever done as much as Turkey to make itself over in the image of a European nation-state; the country's westernised elite brutally imposed secularism, among other things, on its devout population of peasants.
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Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
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Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't prepared, you'll suck.
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I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.
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I worked on a show called 'West Wing' before. I didn't work with Aaron Sorkin, but he created the show and set the tenor of the show, which was you follow the words of the script perfectly because there's a dramaturgical thing behind it.
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Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
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Always upbeat, always happy, always putting you in a good mood. That's what I want to achieve with my music.
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I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash!
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Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.
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In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.
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I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.
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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
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One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
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In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.
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I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.
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With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.
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I was born to murder the world.
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I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.
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Neutrality has its own aesthetics.
