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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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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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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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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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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In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.
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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.
