Iris Apfel Quotes

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

Iris Apfel

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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Worse
  • Active

• I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Myself
  • Feel
  • One Word

• At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Win
  • Turn

• I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Father
  • Alone
  • Mom

• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Clothing

• He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Tree
  • Fruit
  • Tall

• Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Culture
  • You
  • See

• I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thing

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Laughter

• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • God
  • Job

• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• «Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision, which is also to make a decision.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy
  • Decision

• I realized that if you try to be the perfect mom, perfect wife, perfect actress, you start to feel overwhelmed. You shut down. I got that really fast... I was running back and forth from breast-feeding to filming a scene, overextending myself on every level. I realized I have to make priorities, and my family is number one no matter what.

  

  Jenna Dewan
  • Family
  • Running
  • Perfect

• While we women dilly-dally, making decisions, leaving jobs half done, forgetting where we've put the house keys while we water the Hoover and leave the laundry in the dishwasher, men, like blinkered horses, look straight ahead, oblivious to peripheral vision, where a discarded pile of wet towels might have caught their eye.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• The key to doing 'Harold and Kumar' movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar's relationship and friendship believable, and we don't actually work on being that funny.

  

  John Cho
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Relationship

• You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Work
  • Star
  • Practice