Vivienne Westwood Quotes
I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.
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Nonviolent non-co-operation is the only alternative to anarchy and worse.
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While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.
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I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.
