Matthew Williamson Quotes
Developing a new designer colouring book with Laurence King has been a real passion project of mine.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.
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Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
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The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
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Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.
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Developing a new designer colouring book with Laurence King has been a real passion project of mine.
