Dries van Noten Quotes

I look back on shows now that I thought were good, and I don't like them so much anymore. Or criticism I didn't understand or agree with now makes sense.

Dries van Noten

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GoodCriticismThoughtLookBack

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

John Chrysostom

WorseThanSlanderCannibalism

War remains the decisive human failure.

John Kenneth Galbraith

FailureWarHumanDecisiveRemains

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.

Matt McGorry

ChangeFitnessMindGoalAchieving

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Sigmund Freud

FreedomImpossibleEgoWayAnalysis

I allow people to create, but I'm also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativity, as I'm like a referee. Everybody else is kicking a ball. It is very messy. From the mess, though, you refine what is there.

Simon McBurney

CreativityPeopleYouCreateMessy

When I'm stopped in the street, people want to talk about 'The Two Ronnies' and the sketches we did.

Ronnie Corbett

PeopleWantStreetTalkTwoDid

I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.

Brittany Bowe

SpeedYouDownKnowSkatingBlink

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Alice Walker

LifeMeWritingPresentKindLiving

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

LifeGreatSexMysteriousHuman

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

William H. Macy

CharacterMeStoryPlayWantPay

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

Paul Weyrich

LegacyUnderstandConservativeLeave

If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.

Tina Maze

GoodPeopleStrongDoingYouWant

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