Christian Siriano Quotes
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I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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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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I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
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If I'm dancing, or teaching, or having a family I would want to live life to the fullest as possible.
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To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
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What a glorious morning is this!
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No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians. So why is marijuana outlawed while politicians are still legal?
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Men are still playing protector of women’s transitions, and both sexes expect only men to make transitions on their own.
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Music is like a language: you cannot understand it unless you learn it, or more accurately, are born into it.
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Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.
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'Soft Matter' Nobel lecture (9 December 1991)
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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Back in the year 2000, most of the Internet companies were not making any money.
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My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
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Everything I wear is a do and everything else is a don't!
