Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
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I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.
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Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.
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I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
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If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.
