Akiva Goldsman Quotes

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

Akiva Goldsman

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• I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.

  

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• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

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• I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

  

  Akiva Goldsman
  • Television
  • Infatuated