Iris Apfel Quotes
You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you have a basic outfit on - a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress - you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewellery. It helps if you change your shoes as well.
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.
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I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.
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The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community.
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My wardrobe staple is simple shirt dresses. They never date, and you can put them with a heel or a flat sandal.
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There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.
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You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you have a basic outfit on - a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress - you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewellery. It helps if you change your shoes as well.
