Dries van Noten Quotes

When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.

Dries van Noten

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I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

Jodie Foster

PlayGoLinesReadStuffScenes

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

Joel Edgerton

GoodMoneyWhySeeCommercialMovie

Honestly, I feel pretty awed anytime I meet just about any writer. I get how hard it is to write and make a living from it, but there's also this almost magical force you need to tap into, and I'm amazed by anyone who can do it.

Jennifer McMahon

FeelYouLivingMeetWriteNeed

I think that when we're looking at things when we're right in the center of things, as opposed to being a bit unmoored from what's going on around us, we see things through a kind of dulling lens of convention, and there's something about extreme emotional experiences that gives us a heightened clarity, I think, of thought and of feeling.

Jenny Offill

LookingThinkThoughtClarityLens

The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving.

John Marshall

LifeFamilyMy LifeWorthPerson

In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They saw something on the radio, and they want to mimic that formula. And that's just boring. I don't wanna record something just to make money; I want to record something to enjoy it and have fun because I'm a music lover.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

MusicMoneyFunHave FunEnjoyYou

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well.

Sigmar Gabriel

HopeGrassWillUsWellContinue

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

Mason Cooley

LiteratureFirstTheoryOnlyCame

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

Jayson Blair

GoodForgivenessHopeI AmSituation

In London, a lot of the time you don't see the sun shine.

Desiree Rogers

TimeSunShineYouLondonSee

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

Deborah Norville

JobParentsRootsFlyThinkGrow

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.

Christine McVie

YouAwayOnlyBeforeManyMend

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