Noel Riley Fitch Quotes
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
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I train to be the champion.
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Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.
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Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
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My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
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Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.
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Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.
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If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?
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Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!
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“Barker believes that all poets should have the decency to be dead at least a century or two. I feel the same way about politicians.”
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Dead or alive, interesting people are interesting people.
