Vivienne Westwood Quotes
I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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I fight because I like challenges.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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People bring up tweets that I don't even remember, and my general response is, 'I don't know if I said it. I probably said it.' It's just part of what I do.
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I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
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Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.
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Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
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I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'
