Floor Jansen Quotes
I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
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Coffee is a language in itself.
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I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.
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English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
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Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.
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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
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I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.
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I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I'm now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.
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When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television - and I do a lot of television - you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.
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I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
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I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.
