John Varvatos Quotes
A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'
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A house is kind of scary.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
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The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
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I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.
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Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.
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I've always lived in the moment.
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'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'
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And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
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Along thy wild and willow'd shore.
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Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
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All of us in the modern world are constructing our identities, largely through social media, for a larger audience.
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When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.
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My parents started Party Pieces the same year I was born, so I have grown up with their entrepreneurial way of thinking, which, to me, became the norm.
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I've played the game for a long time.
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People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
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A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.
