Daphne Guinness Quotes
Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
-
I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
-
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
-
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
-
I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
-
I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
-
Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
-
I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
-
You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
-
I'm a really bad liar.
-
I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
-
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
-
Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
-
I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
-
I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
-
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
-
My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
-
A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
-
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
-
I haven't taken a break after marriage. Just two days after my marriage, I was in Chandigarh promoting my Punjabi film.
-
The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
-
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
-
I feel a disparity between my life in India within the home and my life outside the home - my life within public and private space. In terms of here and there, there were some differences, but New York and India were very different when I was growing up in the '80s. Definitely in terms of the visual and popular culture I encountered within my home - that was very different from the complete lack of representation I saw of South Asian culture outside of that space.
-
Fantasy appeals to me and can be very much reflected in my dress - but then, each day is different. Not every day is a magical day.
