Donatella Versace Quotes
When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
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I've started doing my Kathak, and I rehearse every day. Also, I'm eating right and keeping in shape. I'm a non-smoker and non-drinker and essentially a happy person. That's what counts the most. Your well-being is reflected in your personality.
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Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
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I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
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Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
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To get scared is something not in my personality.
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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
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Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
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I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.
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I got blessed from my mom. She's the personality; she's the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough.
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What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.
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The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
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If everything is made up of little particles and all the little particles follow quantum mechanics, then shouldn't everything just follow quantum mechanics?
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Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
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I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.
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When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.
