Bram van Velde Quotes
Van Gogh.. .In this world of petty calculations, he was too intense. He frightened people. They cast him out.
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You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.
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These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.
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I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'
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I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.
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Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess.
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Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.
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Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
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I don't think the written word is important in movies anymore and the really great movies are done by great directors who in many cases write their own scripts. I think it's gotten to be more of a visual thing than an audible thing.
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There is a beauty to touring - to be honest, there's a way that music connects and you really feel the actual reaction of people to the music that you're making, and I feel like if I didn't do that I just wouldn't know, and I don't think my music would be the same.
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I told my doctor I think my wife has VD. He gave himself a shot of penicillin.
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I don't look like no kiwi bird.
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If you're a professional, you'll make it work. You can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.
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I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.
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I’ve never been in analysis. But it’s rare that one saves oneself from a rickety landing at the top of a building by throwing oneself down the stairwell.
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If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have intense feelings of revenge. But these feelings would fade. In the end they're small and self-concerned. Only the grief would last.
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I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing. My brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family.
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Van Gogh.. .In this world of petty calculations, he was too intense. He frightened people. They cast him out.
