Amanda Filipacchi Quotes

Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.

Amanda Filipacchi

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• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

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  • Feeling
  • Winning

• I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
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  • Man

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
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• My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
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• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
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• I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Think
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• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
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• For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.

  

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• If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

  

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• I have always been like this. I take after my father. I'm just chill.

  

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  • Father
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• I became famous almost before I had a craft.

  

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• Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

  

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• Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Today
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• The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.

  

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  • Mother
  • Boy
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• 'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'

  

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  • Great
  • True
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• In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

  

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• Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful array of gorgeous human peculiarity revolves before your eyes, and you still can't quite believe it's all yours for the taking.

  

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• Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

  

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  • Wish

• The wish for healing has always been half of health.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Wish
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  • Healing

• A lot of people celebrate their past, but I don't look at it all. I don't Google myself; I focus on the future. This is a volatile profession, and the moment you start thinking you've got something, that's when the floor beneath you falls through, so I hope to make more movies and TV shows.

  

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  • Focus
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• If you take care of your character, your reputation will take care of itself.

  

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  Plato
  • Many
  • Conceive

• Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does not come true, one's high hopes get crushed more painfully than if one had not asked for the help of supernatural powers. Therefore, one should always try to make the wish casually and forget about it instantly after making it, which is what I try to do now.

  

  Amanda Filipacchi
  • Wish
  • Make
  • Hopes