Willemijn Verkaik Quotes
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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How'm I doing?
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.
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The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time ... and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.
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And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.
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Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.
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When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.
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There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
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I started with Tamil film, then Hindi. Now, I am also doing a Telugu film. The journey has been wonderful so far.
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I've always said we need to build resilience locally.
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Never be afraid to learn. Have a good amount of resilience and enjoy the journey.
