Ellen Lupton Quotes
It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.
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Basically, a bad breakup is never meant to teach you 'I'll never fall in love again.' It's meant to teach you 'Now I better know what makes for healthful, happy love - and thanks to this breakup I'm now better able to recognize it and snag it!'
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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When I was in seventh grade, I was a scrawny boy with no muscles, so I went out for wrestling. My intention was to develop secret wrestling skills so that if I were jumped by a bully, I'd shout, 'Ha!' and he'd be on the ground in a headlock.
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.
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If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
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There's ways to amuse yourself while doing things and thats how I look at efficency.
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A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
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Fashion designing involves a lot of work, and, as opposed to the general perception, it is different from costume designing for films. While a fashion designer can take up a costume designer's role, it is not possible vice versa.
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I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.
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I hate this town, it's so washed up. And all my friends don't give a fuck, they'll tell me that it's just bad luck. When will I find where I fit in.
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It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.
