Jenny Packham Quotes
My job is to make sure there's something about each dress that ignites the bride's imagination.
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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I don't want to get fat.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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I travel a lot. I spend close to 300 days a year on the road.
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I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.
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I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
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I often reread books I have written.
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I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.
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I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me.
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I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.
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My job is to make sure there's something about each dress that ignites the bride's imagination.
