Floor Jansen Quotes
I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really learn it, I need to move to Finland.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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I can always go back to education.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.
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As a writer, I consider it my job to deliver new language to the church. Language that inspires, that deepens understanding. Language born from revelation. My prayer is that the lyrics of Christ Be Magnified would set the church on fire.
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I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really learn it, I need to move to Finland.
