Jean Paul Gaultier Quotes

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

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• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

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• I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

  

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• I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.

  

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• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

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• I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.

  

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• Musical theater is one of my passions.

  

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• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

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• 'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.

  

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• There is no truly global justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Justice
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• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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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.

  

  Ian Thorpe
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• Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

  

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• I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

  

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• I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

  

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• The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier
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