Rick Baker Quotes
It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.
Rick Baker
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
Oleg Cassini
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
Daniel Barenboim
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
Ville Valo
HIM
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
Kate Adie
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We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
Abraham Robinson
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I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.
Imtiaz Ali
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
Tamara Ecclestone
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I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.
Karen Elson
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I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
Kara Walker
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Nudity isn't something people should take offense to.
Emily Ratajkowski
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There's that side of me that wants to be the loving, caring father, and there's the other side of me that's just a dirty animal. If I don't let that out, I go nuts.
Dave Gahan
Depeche Mode
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The owner of a company with supertight margins - say, a restaurant, retailer, or producer of commodity goods - would be a fool not to keep a close eye on the numbers. But when I make big decisions, numbers are seldom, if ever, the tiebreaker.
Jason Fried
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I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
Bernie Mac
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I was the singing boy in school.
Sidney Royel Selby III
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I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.
Ellen DeGeneres
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I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.
James McGreevey
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I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.
Geoff Dyer
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The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.
Gene Robinson
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I look at the people's careers who I want to emulate, like Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Bernadette Peters... They've all found the key to longevity in this business, and that is diversifying, doing as many things as possible to keep yourself relevant, and so hopefully I'm on the same track as all those amazing women.
Megan Hilty
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There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.
Edmonia Lewis
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We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
Charlie Dent
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Squelching debate by branding it un-American is dishonest, dangerous, and, in itself, hateful.
Ed Schultz
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What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.
Nile Rodgers
Chic
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It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.
Rick Baker
