Dita Von Teese Quotes
I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.
Quotes to Explore
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
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The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to figure out what was there. And that's what I call fundamental fault analysis.
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It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you.
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So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
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It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
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I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.
