Arlene Francis Quotes
If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.
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We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'
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You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.
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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples
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Nothing's Planted, I don't have a thing in the ground.
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My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
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At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.
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I'm the type of person that you'd walk past and go, 'I think I went to school with her,' or 'I know her and I can't quite place it.' It certainly isn't, 'I know her full name, and I can tell you who she is.'
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Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.
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Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
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I've been doing yoga since 1980 or '81, and I've kind of developed my own routine. It's challenging and thorough, but I'm not holy about it. Sometimes I'll watch a tape of Jon Stewart's show while exercising.
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If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.
