Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
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I wanted to pay tribute to my musical influences: Buffalo Springfield, Lightfoot, the Beatles, the Hollies.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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I think what really clicked for me was when I started booking commercials as a dancer... just being on set and seeing every element of production, it was magic to me.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
