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History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images. Anselm Kiefer

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As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath. Antje Traue

You Looking Layers Underneath Always Going Subtext Actor

I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar. Antje Traue

Guitar Long Enough Took Fingers Piano Were Up Wanted Play

At some point, I went to the studio and nothing happened. It can be really depressing to sit there and wait for the inspiration that doesn't come. I had to start recording rough song ideas before going to the studio. I did that at home whenever I had a good idea. Apparat

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In terms of the organic feel and the love for noises, I definitely feel more connected to Four Tet and Fennesz, as any dance floor artist. I do like some dancey stuff like Martyn when I DJ, but I draw my inspiration from other things. Apparat

If you want to make people dance, you need to follow certain rules. Build-ups and breaks and stuff. I like to be free. On top of it all, I never really felt that I'm good at making fat-sounding dance tracks. Apparat

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland. Apparat

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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. Arthur Schopenhauer

Sacrifice Pain Pleasure Clear Order Gain Avoid

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body. Arthur Schopenhauer

Kind Parasite Were Brain May Dwells Regarded Body Organism Who

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. Arthur Schopenhauer

Fate Gives Make Hand Difference Us Play Cards

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. August Bebel

Today Politics Religion Socialism Economics Aim Atheism Domain Republicanism

Literature is the immortality of speech. August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Immortality Literature Speech

I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it. Babette March

Thought Would Never Good-Looking Make Because Just Succeed

I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved? Barbara Sukowa

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I started to read labels around age 18 or 19. I don't buy things that don't sound like food, and I've been that way all my life. I do go through phases, during which I eat meat for maybe three months then don't. I do eat lots of vegetables. It's the same with dairy - I'll eat it then stop. Barbara Sukowa

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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are. Barbara Sukowa

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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned. Barbara Sukowa

You can only be a monster if people let you be a monster. Barbara Sukowa

You People Monster Only

I always feel like I'm an actress. Barbara Sukowa

Feel Like Always Actress

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