Isabella Blow Quotes
If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
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I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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I think it was 37 years that I did music.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.
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Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.
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I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.
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If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.
