Donna Karan Quotes
I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.
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I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.
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Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
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Yeah, writers do hate writing.
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Everything speeds up and it's blurry for a minute. But you've got to have a little patience sometimes to just find a soft spot. There's always a soft spot in the defense, and it's your job to find it.
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I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.
