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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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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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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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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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
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My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.
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At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.
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The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
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The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.
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Thus far we run before the wind.
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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.
