Ozwald Boateng Quotes
I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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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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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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... secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff.
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It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.
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I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.
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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
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I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.
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I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.
