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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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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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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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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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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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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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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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
Nastassja Kinski -
And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth.
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The last time I played video games was 'Space Invaders.'
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There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
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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.
