Edith Head Quotes
You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
