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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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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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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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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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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No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
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My Twitter is a joke toilet, and I filter all these old, cringe-y parts of my brother and my childhood through that in an attempt to flush it down the drain forever.
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For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.
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The nexus of Donald Trump's hateful behaviors and policies around Muslim people and immigrants comes together right here in Minneapolis. I knew immediately that the people I represent were going to be very, very scared and very, very worried for their safety.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I wasn't the good looking guy, I wasn't the hot chick, I wasn't the fat guy, I didn't have a catchphrase, I didn't wear a silly hat. I was just trying to improve as a comedian.
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I always laugh because people assume I love horror because I do a horror movie, but I'm not a huge horror fan.
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A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.
