Janet Flanner Quotes
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.
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'Humans' would definitely score really well on the Bechdel test - the one that tracks how well represented women are in drama.
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I think about my friends all the time when I'm designing. That's always an arbiter. Would Katy wear this? Would Rihanna wear this? Would Sia wear it? Would Miley wear it?
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You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.
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I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.
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I would like to say that it is not important what you have, but how you enjoy it.
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
