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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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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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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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.
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When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.
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I think that Apple has revolutionized every other consumer industry; why not television? The complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated. So it seems exactly the sort of problem that if anyone is going to change the experience of what the first principles are, it is going to be Apple.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
