Armin van Buuren Quotes
Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.
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I once went out with this girl, she was no bargain either, she showed up with pigtails under her arms.
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History is not hatred.
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Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.
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I wanted to be in 'The Emerald Forest.' I chased that one for six months before it all came about. I wanted to work with John Boorman!
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Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.
