Carine Roitfeld Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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You are just your intelligence.
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We tend to live up to our expectations.
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I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
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Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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If you listen too much, you won't be able to create.
