Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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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 are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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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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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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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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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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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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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
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I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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If you listen too much, you won't be able to create.
