Halston Quotes
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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There's always something good to come out of disappointment: Comfort.
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
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Thought is fugitive; the mind does not repeat itself; if you do not catch the whisperings of the oracle as they come to you, they are lost forever. You must-and this is absolutely essential-convince yourselves that what is offered you this very moment will never be offered again.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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You don't become a chef to become famous.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
