Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing housedresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
