Klaus Kinski Quotes
Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.
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I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
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A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
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You don't just go to your bosses and say, 'This sucks. I'm supposed to be winning everything.' If you have an awesome idea or a story, or something great, you go, 'Hey, how about we do this,' but when the story is not you, you have to find a way to make it work.
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If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.
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Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.
