Nastassja Kinski Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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The things that motivated me at 21 don't suffice. Which is scary but really liberating in a way. It's taken me a long time to feel like, instead of being invited to the party with a bunch of people I don't know, that I actually deserve to be here.
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One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.
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For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, she published two sophisticated novels, 'Quicksand' and 'Passing,' and then her writing life came to an end. She died in obscurity in 1964.
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We have to be tough. It's time we're going to be a little bit tough, folks. We're taken advantage by every nation in the world, virtually. It's not going to happen any more.
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I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.
Nastassja Kinski
