Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.
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I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.
