Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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First and foremost, I look for a great script. Then, the team that I am working with. Only then, we will be able to come up with a good film.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it's utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
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There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
