Kathy Ireland Quotes
For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
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In the heat of the battle, it's always different than when you go back and look at it on film.
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I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano; I was a theatre actor.
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Most of the people in advertising now - mention Bill Bernbach to them, they don't know.
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I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?
