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Quotes
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Authors
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Gijs de Vries
"You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."
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Gijs de Vries
#Heart Quotes
#National Security Quotes
#Sovereignty Quotes
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“I didn't want to become this stiffened - and that was just a personal choice, at that time. And, the idea was also to go to film first, get enough notoriety in film that I could interpret some of the opera stuff the way I would want to interpret it.”
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“I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.”
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“An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.”
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“If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.”
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“I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.”
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“By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash”
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“When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's actually cool. Sometimes it's worrisome when you feel they badly misinterpret it, but it just says that they're thinking, and they're bringing their own interpretation to bear on it. That's part of the wonderful thing about putting words into the world, and if I was worried about that, I couldn't be a writer.”
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“I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.”