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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In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have. It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are, but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life.
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There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.
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The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.
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Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.
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Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
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I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.
