Willemijn Verkaik Quotes
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
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I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.
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I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
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We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes.
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Axilor Ventures helps startups to improve their odds of success, and I look forward to supporting the executive management of Axilor with this vision.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.
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For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.
