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 didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.
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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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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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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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I had to do something for the country.
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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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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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I'll do a strong eye or a strong lip - but both together? Not so much.
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I have a lot of male friends.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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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.
