Ben van Berkel Quotes
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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Twice I let people talk me out of good ideas.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.
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I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.
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People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.
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Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.
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My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
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Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.
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I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.
