Bram van Velde Quotes
My work is independent of my will. My best works are created when driven by an inner strength. This has nothing to do with my will. It is that immediate spontaneity of my intense way of living that makes the difference between my work and a lot of other artists who make art works with their mind.
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
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These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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It's kind of a crazy thing to decide that you're going to be worth tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars and set out to do that. It doesn't suit everybody.
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We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.
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The creation of a consumer agency, structured similarly to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, levels the playing field. It gives consumers a powerful advocate at the federal level.
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
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I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
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My work is independent of my will. My best works are created when driven by an inner strength. This has nothing to do with my will. It is that immediate spontaneity of my intense way of living that makes the difference between my work and a lot of other artists who make art works with their mind.
