Vivienne Westwood Quotes
I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.
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I'm tired of living in a police state.
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Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?
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Yeah, my dad bought me a guitar when I was like 10, and I didn't really want it then.
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I've missed London so much for its fashion. No disrespect to the girls in Manchester, but some really do look like clones - there's a lot of hair extensions and fake tans. You're free to experiment down here.
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Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.
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Once leprosy had gone, and the figure of the leper was no more than a distant memory, these structures still remained. The game of exclusion would be played again, often in these same places, in an oddly similar fashion two or three centuries later. The role of the leper was to be played by the poor and by the vagrant, by prisoners and by the 'alienated', and the sort of salvation at stake for both parties in this game of exclusion is the matter of this study.
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I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
