Valentino Garavani Quotes
My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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I wanted a bronzer so I could look like I just came from Ibiza everyday.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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I was doing everything I could think of to protect my husband and keep him alive.
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After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.
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Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
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I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.
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The older I get, the more I think it's this listening. You listen for it, and you have a bit of patience. And it'll come until it sounds - to me, the best songs I've written, I think, are ones that I can't hear anything - any of myself in it. It sounds like a cover song, like somebody else's song - really something you've stolen wholesale off a radio that you've listened to in someone else's flat.
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My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.
