Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
Jack Falahee -
There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
Adam Mansbach -
I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
Jack Whitehall -
The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
Famke Janssen -
You either get better, or you don't progress.
Lance Reddick -
When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
Karen Salmansohn
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
Flume -
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
Barbara Lee -
It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
Garry Shandling -
I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
Becky G -
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
Harry Browne -
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell -
To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
Karen Hesse -
Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.
Cam Newton -
I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.
Jackie Chan -
When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
J. D. Pardo
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Good is not good when better is expected.
Vin Scully -
Get the chalk! Get the fucking chalk! Put me on the board! Put me on the Cadillac board! Williamson! Pick up the fucking chalk! Hey, Rick I closed em! I closed the cocksucker!
David Mamet -
Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
M. J. Rose -
I can swear like a fishwife.
Frances Bay -
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
Elon Musk -
My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
Carine Roitfeld