Nastassja Kinski Quotes
If I were an animal, I would be a fish or a bird. It's the peace and beauty of ocean, the silent language of it. It seems like a womb, protective. The sky too. I love all colors, but blue mainly, because it's transparent like the water and the sky.Nastassja Kinski
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Whatever happens, happens. Accept things and move on.
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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.
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The best way for photographers to become rich and famous is to go into another field.
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Though farm chores and construction work are the most physically demanding jobs that I currently do, they feel like recess to me. And there's something really beautiful about work that feels like play.
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If I were an animal, I would be a fish or a bird. It's the peace and beauty of ocean, the silent language of it. It seems like a womb, protective. The sky too. I love all colors, but blue mainly, because it's transparent like the water and the sky.
Nastassja Kinski
