Olivier Theyskens Quotes
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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Love is a state of being.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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'Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense.
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I love guys like Charlie Parker.
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I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
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I'm capable offstage of having some dark, twisted thoughts but the kind of things I like to do onstage are just more conceptual and I don't even think of them as being clean. I don't sit down and think, "Man, I'm going to come up with some lily-white comedy!" They're just things that I like to talk about, and then at the end of the day you think, "Well, I guess that was clean" but it's not the focus.
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I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
