Amanda Filipacchi Quotes
Walking on eggshells is what stupid people call the effort required not to offend someone. For smart people, not offending takes no effort.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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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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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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Collecting is my passion.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
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I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.
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There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.
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It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like.
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I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.
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From a scientific point of view, it's hard for me to understand why someone in the Texas Panhandle should not have access to the same research funds that someone in the Oklahoma Panhandle can have.
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Walking on eggshells is what stupid people call the effort required not to offend someone. For smart people, not offending takes no effort.
