"I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books."

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Source : "Carice van Houten Talks to Cole Smithey About Making Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.

Carice van Houten

#Country Quotes #Hero Quotes #Book Quotes

“I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.”
“People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.”
“My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not a hardening, or settling process. Education is not to teach men facts, theories, or laws; it is not to reform them, or amuse them, or to make them expert technicians in any field; it is to teach them to think, to think straight if possible; but to think always for themselves.”
“Sometimes good days are not always fun, sometimes they are good because of how hard they were and gratifying for those reasons.”
“Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.”
“Fear is feeling, is not what do you think. That feeling keeps your body in every way to 100% and makes you react like a wild animal. It gives you that extra than you have in a normal”
“Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I always am convinced I'm going to be fired. I'm like, 'I don't remember how to act. I don't know how to do this.' And, it's just a very slow process, and then, all of a sudden, it's just there one day. I still don't understand how it happens.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting With Once Star Cristin Milioti". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. April 27, 2012.
“Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.”

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