Quotes by Dutch authors

"When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer"

"The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy"

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God"

"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart"

"Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding"

"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden"

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength"

"Let God's promises shine on your problems"

"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation"

"I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director"

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"

"The best way to know God is to love many things"

"Yes, I definitely believe that it has some good cross-platform properties. Object orientation was one of the techniques I used to make Python platform independent"

"Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future"

"Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear"

"I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA"

"The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney"

"Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want"

"I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. It's been an incredible ride and I love it and I'm just going to keep going and doing what I'm doing"

"I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things"

"I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over"

"I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out"

"I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done"

"I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best"

"Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next"

"I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something"

"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"

"Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with"

"It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part"

"We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them"