Dries van Noten Quotes
People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.
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Radio is the playground of coincidence.
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I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.
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I think once 'Empire' hit, there was a lot of bad black TV that followed, because we work in the business of hit-seekers and copycats, so they're like, 'Oh this is a show about black people; this is about music, OK let's do a version of that.' And, of course, it doesn't work because it's not organic.
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People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.
