Paulina Porizkova Quotes
People want you to be beautiful and shut up. When I paint or play music, they'd rather not know about that.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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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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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us.
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It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people.
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There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can't deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it's not politically conservative or liberal.
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People want you to be beautiful and shut up. When I paint or play music, they'd rather not know about that.
