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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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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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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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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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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Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.
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I'm thrilled beyond belief to be different in this business. I pray that there will be more roles for bigger girls. I pray that the role of the love interest, the beautiful, sexy girl, will be played by a plus-size woman.
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It is this thinking which I think gives rise to the greatest tragedies of history, this sense of commitment to a past purpose which reinforces the original agreement precisely at a time when experience has shown that it must be reversed.
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I feel very peaceful.
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There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
