Floor Jansen Quotes
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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I love New York. Love it.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
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I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.
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'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.
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Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this.. ..that quality of response from people when they leave themselves behind, often experienced in nature, an experience of simple joy.. .My paintings are about merging, about formlessness.. .A world without objects, without interruption.
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I'm opinionated, and I'm comfortable with confrontation. I'm very happy to say if I believe the opposite of what you think.
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If I'm happy, you can tell, and there's no way of faking it.
