Charles M. Blow Quotes
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath.
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The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.
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I'm tired of living in a police state.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
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As a writer, the ideal job is the one that allows you time and mental space away from it. Teaching seemed to me like the obvious choice - those summers off, you know - but my experience may serve as a cautionary tale.
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I believe one can make women happier by bringing both more white and more colour into their lives. I’m sure that someday Paris streets will be as full of colour as one can see now on African and Asian streets. It’s ridiculous to focus on hemlines. Wearing my clothes is a question of spirit.
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There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.
