Philip Treacy Quotes
Shopping can be a nightmare - first finding something to wear and then finding something to go with it, it's so difficult when there's so much choice. It can feel like entering a battleground.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when we realized that our training had broader, real-world applications.
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I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
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You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.
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I have clients from 19 to 80 years old, and the way I work means that they can take the same dress and shorten, lengthen it, remove the sleeve, adjust details - and make it their own. They get a piece that is right for them. It's a clever way of shopping in this economy.
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Tax expenditures for middle- and working-class Americans - like the earned income tax credit - aren't thought of as loopholes; they're just thought of as benefits.
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You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can't really fuel your creative existence any longer because it's not stable, however amazing and exciting it may be.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.
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Shopping can be a nightmare - first finding something to wear and then finding something to go with it, it's so difficult when there's so much choice. It can feel like entering a battleground.
