Bram van Velde Quotes
Painting is getting in touch with the truth. It's a matter of summoning up the vision I need.
Quotes to Explore
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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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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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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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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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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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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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
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There's a thing in the U.K., particularly in London, where it's kind of the idea of subculture and counterculture and the outside and the idea that it's great to be a freak, and the freak always wins. So I think English girls are a lot less scared of being the freak or looking like an idiot.
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I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.
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Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes extremely blurry.
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I think it's always super exciting to watch something before you can see it in theaters.
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Painting is getting in touch with the truth. It's a matter of summoning up the vision I need.
