Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish.
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Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.
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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
