William Albert Allard Quotes
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
Quotes to Explore
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
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Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.
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When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.
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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
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The first thing about Houston is it's an organization run from a different perspective. In Cincy, the team lives off money it earns from football. Houston's owner has other business interests, and he controls the money.
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“For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible?”
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I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.
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Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
