Iris Apfel Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
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I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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No man could have accepted me because I am too rebellious. It would have been catastrophe. I am too into my own thing.
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I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
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I call myself a geriatric starlet.
