Bram van Velde Quotes
Painting is getting in touch with the truth. It's a matter of summoning up the vision I need.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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To those who know thee not, no words can paint!And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
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I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.
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If you feel like you don't have a choice to write it, write it. If you feel like you do have a choice, then move on, because there are so many books in the world.
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I never thought I would say this, but I'm desperate to do an action film.
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It's our vision that in three to five years this could be a really large special meet with 20 or 30 teams coming in. You have to start somewhere and grow from there.
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I definitely am a Twihard!
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No man or woman in this dispensation will ever enter into the celestial kingdom of God without the consent of Joseph Smith...every man and woman must have the certificate of Joseph Smith, junior, as a passport to their entrance into the mansion where God and Christ are...
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Painting is getting in touch with the truth. It's a matter of summoning up the vision I need.
