Ian Schrager Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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When it comes down to it, Hillary Clinton will very much excite the Republican faithful to get out and work hard. I don't know if a similar case can be made if Obama is the candidate.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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My friend, singer Kaya Jones of the Pussycat Dolls, told me she could finally come out of the closet and wear her Trump 2016 campaign shirt.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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I always get stopped by security and immigration, telling me, 'Tell me who the terrorist is, or we won't stamp your passport!' The last time that somebody did that to me - at LAX, actually - I was like, 'Hey, don't ever ask a brown girl that in an American airport!'
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There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
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If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.
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Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
