Carine Roitfeld Quotes
When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.
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One day I'd love a house in the country, with some chickens, dogs and kids.
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Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.
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There was an old lady who lived in a shoe. She had so many kids... her uterus fell out!
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Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
