Will Burtin Quotes
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I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
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It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
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The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.
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It's later than it's ever been.
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I am certainly an ought and not a must.
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As a teenage fisherman, I watched and followed terns to find fish. Later, I studied terns for my Ph.D.
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In true prose everything must be underlined.
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I must have a drink of breakfast.
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I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.
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Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.
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There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
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Lo! with a little rodI did but touch the honey of romance -And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.
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I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.
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As a designer and someone that likes getting my hands dirty, it's hard. It's a competition. I can't give too much away. One thing I could do was offer encouraging words.
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We had our opportunities, we just didn't convert.
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I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.
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I don't see evidence of America being a poorer country than it was 20 years ago. I've seen impoverished devastation. I've seen places where things had been good and now they were very bad.
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Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.
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The designer must think first and work later.
