Jenny Packham Quotes
It's very nerve-wracking dressing someone because you obviously do everything you can to get them to be interested in something you've done, and then you hear they're wearing it, and then, obviously, they're going to step out in it, and you want to know that it's all going to work and what everybody's going to say about it.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.
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If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.
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Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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I didn't realize people tip for take-out.
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It's very nerve-wracking dressing someone because you obviously do everything you can to get them to be interested in something you've done, and then you hear they're wearing it, and then, obviously, they're going to step out in it, and you want to know that it's all going to work and what everybody's going to say about it.
