Nastassja Kinski Quotes
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.Nastassja Kinski
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.
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When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski
