Sylvia Kristel (Sylvia Maria Kristel) Quotes
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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I like to keep Valentine's dinner light so you don't crash after and can keep the fun going through the night!
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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I put my foot in my mouth sometimes. I'll be the first to admit it.
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Validation is easy - you run your site through a validator, and it's either valid or it isn't. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn't so easy and is subject to interpretation.
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It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.
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I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.
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I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.
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It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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I can feel my body is starting to get tired, all that training, which I've been doing three or four times a week since I was eight, and recovery is taking longer.
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Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
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Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
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My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.
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A gaffe in Washington is when a politician inadvertently reveals the truth, especially about himself.
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Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.
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I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.
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I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and there; and even though one sometimes feels a kind of decay, though things go differently from the expected, it is necessary to take heart again and new courage. For the great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
