Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.
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The universe can take quite a while to deliver.
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People say to me, 'You make fantastic films' and I say, 'No, I make documentaries.'
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I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
