Donatella Versace Quotes
I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference.
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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
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I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
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You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
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Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.
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I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. I actually want to do this Shakespeare play in New York, but I think it's interesting that there's this gaping hole in the repertoire in the American theater, which is Shakespeare. It's hardly ever done, compared to how often it's done in other companies, not just Britain. Someone from the Roundabout Theater Company - I said, "You never do Shakespeare." And he said, "Yes, we're not very good at it." And I thought, "What a terrible thing to say.".
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Sometimes you also work with people who don't explain or express to you what they're actually looking for from the shot but you haven't got that problem with this because whatever you're going to do, whether it's good or bad, will get picked up. So, in that way I guess it's pure cinema.
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I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.
