Narciso Rodriguez Quotes
When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.
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I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
