Sylvia Kristel (Sylvia Maria Kristel) Quotes
I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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I take a lot of pictures.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.
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He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
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Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.
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If I were king, I would not allow people to go about burning the American flag. However, we have a First Amendment which says that the right of free speech shall not be abridged. And it is addressed, in particular, to speech critical of the government.
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I think that I have very few personal gifts to bring to real politics.
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A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.
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I have a Baldwin in my L.A. apartment, a Steinway in my New York apartment, and a Kawai plexiglass grand piano in storage for shows. I still play for two or three hours every day.
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The best thing we can do with rejection is to make it a learning experience - rejection is a great teacher.
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My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice.
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Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.
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Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik, and I always appreciate naysayers. That's what motivates me.
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Writers are a superstitious cowardly lot, and we loathe learning new computer applications to do something that, let's be honest, we could accomplish equally well with pen and paper - especially when that application is as unconventional as Scrivener.
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You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.
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Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization.
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I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.
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Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.
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I have to be careful not to be too proud in life, because there is always room for improvement.
