Prabal Gurung Quotes

I know what it's like to turn the page of a magazine and not see anyone like you. It takes a lot, a lot, a lot of talking to yourself to confirm your self-worth.

Prabal Gurung

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• Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • Remember
  • I Can

• I am a citizen of the world.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Citizen

• I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Parents
  • Train
  • Meet

• Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

  

  Pat Brown
  • You
  • Smart
  • Figure

• Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Joy

• Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Life
  • Sister
  • Writer

• In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

  

  Beck
  • Fun
  • Rap
  • Means

• I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Women
  • Space
  • Fly

• Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Time
  • Home
  • Trust

• I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

  

  Lana Wood
  • Never
  • Still
  • Unpleasant

• Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Country

• The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • House
  • Three

• Where I grew up in the middle of Georgia, hip-hop is king, and on Friday and Saturday nights, local DJs do mixes. It's a great mix of local stuff and then some of the bigger hits and remixes of the hits, and it just has this nice flow with a dirty-South sound to everything.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Great
  • Nice

• My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Advice

• After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Anxiety

• I really feel like 'True Blood' is a big, giant slice of cake for the audience every week; it's offering people 60 minutes of sometimes thought-provoking entertainment. If you're gonna give an Emmy out, you should probably give it to the audience of 'True Blood.'

  

  Chris Bauer
  • People
  • True

• Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

  

  Mary Pickford
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Exercise

• Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

  

  Aaron Hill
  • Courage
  • Numbers
  • Lion

• Upon my lips the breath of song, Within my heart a rhyme, Howe'er time trips or lags along, I keep abreast with time!

  

  Clinton Scollard
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Lips

• In the end, being the writer on set is a bit like having organised a big party, but you're not allowed to eat or drink anything. You just have to stand in the corner.

  

  John Niven
  • Party

• I know what it's like to turn the page of a magazine and not see anyone like you. It takes a lot, a lot, a lot of talking to yourself to confirm your self-worth.

  

  Prabal Gurung