Didi Conn Quotes
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I'm just in love with Burberry. Always have been, always will be.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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I very rarely wear suits, and only make one or two per season, so it's about wanting exceptional clothes that don't feel stiff. Fabric and garment washing are a big part of my design process for that reason. Everything needs to feel lived-in and comfortable.
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I used to say I would never run unless I was being chased by someone with a gun. Now I'm a little obsessed with it!
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At the Bauhaus, Klee exuded a healthy, generative atmosphere – as a great artist and as a lucid, pure human being.
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India is an old country, but a young nation; and like the young everywhere we are impatient. I am young, and I too have a dream. I dream of an India strong, independent and self-reliant and in the front rank of the nations of the world in the service of mankind.
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'O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.'The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead.'
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When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
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The mind-stuff is not spread in space and time. But we must presume that in some other way or aspect it can be differentiated into parts. Only here and there does it arise to the level of consciousness, but from such islands proceeds all knowledge. The latter includes our knowledge of the physical world.
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If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.
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I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.
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It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.
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Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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Every big-budget film is powered by a director's vision. I blindly follow the instructions of my director, believe in him, and deliver what he exactly wants from me.
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Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.
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As the American people have discovered, soaring rhetoric is no substitute for effective leadership on the key issues facing our nation: jobs, runaway spending, and an exploding government debt.
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I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.
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We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.
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I love working in the theater.
