Olivier Theyskens Quotes
We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.
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I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.
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Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
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No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
