Nina Hagen (Catharina "Nina" Hagen) Quotes
I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.
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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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I just like to explore all sorts of different forms - no, 'explore' is not even the word - enjoy. You don't want to limit yourself to a particular form.
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Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
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Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.
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The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
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I don't know how people do this waxing thing. Now I just have all these bumpy ingrown hairs.
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If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
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Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.
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A couple of taxi drivers have asked me if we can survive financially as an independent nation. I say, how come we are more stupid than Denmark or Finland or Sweden? They've all got the same amount of people. Are we all going to down tools? Is everybody in Scotland going to stop working?
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I always talk about my characters like they're real people.
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A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
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I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about.
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So many different countries have got their version of what Merlin is: the Scottish say he Scottish, the Welsh say he's Welsh, the French say he's French.
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I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family.
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People seem to read so much more nonfiction than fiction, and so it always gives me great pleasure to introduce a friend or family member to a novel I believe they'll cherish but might not otherwise have thought to pick up and read.
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It's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say.
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If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.
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When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
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Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown!
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Let's just shatter the illusion. I am not wealthy. I've lived in the same house for the past 30 years.
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I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.
