Donna Karan Quotes
To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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Come on, we would be foolish to say that there's never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn't happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.
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If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.
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Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.
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My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I'm active because I can't think of anything else to do in my so-called retirement.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.
