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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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'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.
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I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.
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People always want me to talk about Wonder Woman, so I do.
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Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.
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I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent - of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards.
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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.
