Lapo Elkann Quotes
I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
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Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it... I expect the Internet to be around longer than any nation-state, so a nation-state-backed currency is actually less safe than an Internet currency in my mind.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.
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I’m an entrepreneur, and I want to be remembered as the seed that was planted in good soil and multiplied a hundredfold.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
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We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
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I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
