Jaap Stam Quotes

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.

I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I'm doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.

I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.

I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

The more experiences you can have as an individual makes you a fuller person and a fuller actor.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.

I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.

I have been blessed to have had many excellent teachers. The further I get away from school, though, the more I realize that the greatest teachers in my life have come from outside of academia.

We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.

The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.

I think it's important to figure out you and to have fun and to be dating and to figure out what you like and what you don't like. It's what growing up is all about.

I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

Now that I'm older, I see the benefits of having free time to release energy.

When someone like me takes a sabbatical, it leads to a few happy realisations. It was only when I was away that I realised how films are such a big part of my life.

There are many types of education: formal education, street education, personal education, experiential education, and I've found that I've had different partners who have a lot of wonderful intellect and education from all different types of sources.

I've got a family, and I get to enjoy my family, and I get to do different things, trying the movie thing a little bit.

When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.