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Quotes by Dutch Authors
"Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that."
"I thought that the AIVD was there to protect citizens like me."
"I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends."
"Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after."
"Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want."
"I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished."
"Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire in our soul, but no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a little bit of smoke coming through the chimney, and pass on their way."
"So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round."
"Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude."
"This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting."
"But I don't sit down and think: this is meant for children."
"If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights."
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."
"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."
"David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music."
"And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them."
"How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges, they have been with us from the very beginning."
"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."
"I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear."
"You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."
"I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands."
"And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails."
"When we got knocked out against Porto in the Champions League, I only slept two hours that night. I was not a nice person to be with after that match. I was struggling to get the result out of my system."
"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture."
"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."
"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
"Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known."
"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."
"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."
"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, 'What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.' Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."
"Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane."
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