Sylvia Kristel (Sylvia Maria Kristel) Quotes
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.
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Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
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I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.
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No one deserves to be whipped like an animal.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken.
