Floor Jansen Quotes
Even though Nightwish is my life and I love what I do - I could do this every day - to not do it really makes you desire even more for it again.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.
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After leaving Evanescence, I dealt with a lot of sh--, then being diagnosed as bipolar, and my heavy drug use and rehab ... this record went through all that with me, so making it was a complete catharsis, ... I'm focusing on me and getting the unhealthy things out of my life, which isn't always an easy thing to do, but that's been my main focus right now. I'm still on a journey, you know, but I'm a lot happier now. I can sleep easier.
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The desire to learn from people was always bound up with the desire to seem special to them.
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I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.
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Even though Nightwish is my life and I love what I do - I could do this every day - to not do it really makes you desire even more for it again.
