Carine Roitfeld Quotes

My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'

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• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

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• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

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• If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.

  

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• I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

  

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• My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.

  

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• You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

  

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• I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.

  

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• The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

  

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• In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

  

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• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

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• I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.

  

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• It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

  

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• Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.

  

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• I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

  

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• Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

  

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• I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

  

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• My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.

  

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• I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

  

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• Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.'

  

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• I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

  

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• Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

  

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• Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

  

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• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

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• My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Fashion