William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
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The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
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The most beautiful destination I've been to was the Seychelles Islands, and the most culturally inspiring place was Mumbai, India.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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'Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea,' said Japhy. 'Remember that book I told you about; the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.'
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I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?
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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
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... it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F.D.R. used the phrase earlier.
