Iris Apfel Quotes
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
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I get homesick.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
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Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you need. I'd rather have three really good friends than 20 good friends.
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When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
