Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.
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After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful.
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A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
