Katarina Witt Quotes
The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone's gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.
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Bristol Rovers were 4-0 up at half time, with four goals in the first half.
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It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.
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A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.
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For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.
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The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
