Carine Roitfeld Quotes
'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
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Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
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For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I've got so many: Peter O'Toole, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Reed. If they got 'Hunky Dory' and 'Citadel' offered to them, they would do completely different jobs on both of them.
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A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.
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Rhythm, that's an essential part of cooking. The sound of a lovely song and the smell of some dish in the oven are equally evocative.
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'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
