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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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.
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I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
