Vidal Sassoon Quotes
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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It's those damn critics again.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.
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I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
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'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
