Betsey Johnson Quotes
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
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People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, absolutely. I think my brother and I both get our senses of humor from our parents. I mean, my mother was absolutely hilarious and foul. She had the most ridiculously off color sense of humor, so that was sort of what we grew up with.
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Audiences need to keep demanding shows with strong female leads.
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We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
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I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
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A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
