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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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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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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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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It's so important for kids to get involved with sports in general at a young age.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
