Natasha Tsakos Quotes

I do not feel any obligations toward my lineage, or environment, but an inclination to what feels right.

Natasha Tsakos

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• I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

  

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• People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'

  

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• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

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• I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

  

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• The movie business is a big gamble.

  

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• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

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• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

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• The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.

  

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• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

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• I love the produce section at the grocery store.

  

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• Language usage always has a political context.

  

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• Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.

  

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• I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.

  

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• You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

  

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• Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.

  

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• If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

  

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• My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

  

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• The level of outbreak is beyond anything we’ve seen - or even imagined.

  

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• One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

  

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• It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global warming, which could be detected from a long way away. One assumes that a very advanced civilization that has been around maybe millions and millions of years would have an even bigger footprint that might extend beyond its planet to its immediate astronomical environment.

  

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• I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.

  

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• I do not feel any obligations toward my lineage, or environment, but an inclination to what feels right.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • Environment
  • Right
  • Inclination