Raf Simons Quotes
My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. So I write melodies-thirty, forty, fifty-then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. That happened one time with Jacques Demy for the duo of the twins [in Les demoiselles de Rochefort]: I went to his house in Noirmoutier to play 35 possible themes for him.
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Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.
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It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
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I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?
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I have withdrawal pains about not getting to work the people (on the show).
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
