Amelie Nothomb Quotes
It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.Amelie Nothomb
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
Walter Huston -
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
Idina Menzel -
There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
Walter Salles -
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
Wayne Newton
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
Sam Shepard -
People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
Macaulay Culkin -
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
Adam Driver -
I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
Kate Hudson -
We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
Salman Khurshid -
Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
Kate Christensen
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
Bat for Lashes -
They call me Fearless Felix.
Felix Baumgartner -
It's too many questions about what I'm going to do, why I'm retiring, and this and that. So I answer the same question, I don't know, a thousand times.
Marat Safin -
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
Patrick Wilson -
Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
Edmund Clarence Stedman -
I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
Irina Shayk
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The most frustrating thing is that I want to always buy the best thing, the thing that does the most stuff.
Jerry Zucker -
A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.
Abraham Lincoln -
I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.
Kris Kristofferson -
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln -
It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.
Amelie Nothomb