Fernando Pessoa Quotes
Thing thrown to a corner, rag fallen on the road, my ignoble being feigns itself in front of life.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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I don't read books.
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
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I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
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To live according to the spirit is to love according to the spirit.
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I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
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He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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Thing thrown to a corner, rag fallen on the road, my ignoble being feigns itself in front of life.
