Daphne Guinness Quotes

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

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• People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • People
  • Awesome
  • Fantastic

• I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Want
  • Shows
  • Mysterious

• When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Greatness

• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Love
  • Relationship

• Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Gold

• I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Grateful

• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Shark

• Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Opinion
  • Popular
  • Diversity

• Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • You
  • Sometimes

• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Long
  • Die

• I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Successful

• I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Book

• Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Never
  • Vision
  • Look

• When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • Happy
  • Song
  • College

• If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• I'll be honest with you: I think that it's really difficult, this framing around 'good cops' and 'bad cops.' Policing, as a system, is incredibly corrupt, period.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Period

• Why sleep when there are books to read.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Why
  • Book
  • Sleep

• My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.

  

  Louis Begley
  • World
  • Work
  • Book

• I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • Why