Ellen Raskin Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that.
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My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
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I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.
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I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.
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I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.
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Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.
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There was a time in my early 20s when I would leave a movie theater and just feel so alone and lonely afterwards. I just felt like my life was nothing like those characters up on the screen, so perfect all the time. Why didn't I talk like that? Why don't I look like that?
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And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.
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And I'm sure hoping that comes true this time, because we really need to.
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But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
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In real life sweet moments are short and dulled by time.
