Phoebe Philo Quotes
I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
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The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.
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It's really hard for me to meet someone. I don't want to date actors. Been there, done that. Only one actor per household, please.
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I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.
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The French have a saying: 'Time will not consecrate that in which she has been ignored.' Bear this admonition ever in mind for it is deeply true. And so, while I say we will neither hasten nor delay, let us not delay. All of which is summed up in the proverbs :
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I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.
