Floor Jansen Quotes
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
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Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.
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One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
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I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.
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When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
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'I want to know what the devil you mean by keeping coming into my private apartment, taking up space which I require for other purposes and interrupting me when I am chatting with my personal friends. Really one gets about as much privacy in this house as a strip-tease dancer.'
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I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
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My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.
