Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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I am not a fan of books.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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I can't stand reading anything that I've said.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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A lot of rumours on the Internet are wrong and horrible.
