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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Any time spent before the Eucharistic presence, be it long or short, is the best-spent time of our lives.
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Any good thing that happens to someone you love can only be good for you too.
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I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
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I was born to murder the world.
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Neutrality has its own aesthetics.
