Edith Head Quotes
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.
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Lasting harmony with a woman was an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.
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A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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I have to keep inspiration close to me. I'm always on YouTube looking at the greats or anything that can give me the spark that I need.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
