Mike Gordon Quotes
I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
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I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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I only travel with one suitcase - Mulberry does an incredible one. I always check it; the TSA restrictions are so tricky.
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I don't think my brand of self-confidence and self-assuredness can come from an outside source. It's got to come from me.
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For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.
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I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.
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I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.
