Carine Roitfeld Quotes
I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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I have always loathed working out.
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Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
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I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
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It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
