Max Azria Quotes
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
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It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
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America in its entirety is segregationist and is racist. It's more camouflaged in the north, but it's the same thing.
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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good.
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So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.
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I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.
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Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.
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I felt I could become a performer who stood out, who challenged the way things were done and make it more creative and also encourage men and women to not be afraid of their sexuality.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.
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Fashion is about comfort and feeling good.
