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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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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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Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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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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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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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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'Cause baby now we got bad blood.You know it used to be mad love.So take a look at what you've done.'Cause baby now we got bad blood.
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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 a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?
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As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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If our society was a lot wealthier, I think we'd also probably have better education systems - this is pretty intuitive, I think, to make as a claim.
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I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'
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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.
