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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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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You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
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I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.
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On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.
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I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.
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There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
