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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."
"I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion."
"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."
"Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer."
"So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it."
"Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling."
"To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants."
"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
"The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move."
"This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat."
"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."
"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."
"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."
"Roddick has good presence on the court and has so much adrenalin."
"In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you."
"Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical."
"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."
"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
"Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home."
"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream."
"You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time."
"Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets."
"I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss."
"I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track."
"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."
"All those who are here can stay. I don't say send them home like he does."
"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
"The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants."
"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."
"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."
"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic."
"Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her."
"I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format."
"Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players."
"I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me."
"But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly."
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