Manolo Blahnik Quotes
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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I think people read the tabloids because they want to see you eating a burger, or out of your makeup or doing something stupid because they just want to see that you're like everyone else. And that's okay. I don't want to catch myself anymore saying that my life is hard, because the good far outweighs the bad in my life. And it's easier to focus on those things, on the things that are important.
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I love working with younger people. I feel like we need to catch up with them. In South Asian art it's important to address the fact that the majority of what we see is Hindu, and based in Hinduism, and that it has a social and cultural history. Islam and Muslim culture are often now figured as these outside invaders who came into India, and this is in the service of a more right-wing nationalist discourse that is Islamophobic. And that's part of the worldwide Islamophobia moment that we're having right now.
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I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
