Carine Roitfeld Quotes
There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
Quotes to Explore
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
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Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
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I love imperfections.
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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
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I was stupid when I started: the epitome of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. It was like, 'I get to live in L.A. and drive around in limos? Really?' I didn't realize I was owned. The more money gets pumped into you, the more you become a marionette. It made me a true redneck in attitude: I never wanted to wake up ever again feeling owned.
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There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
