David Adjaye Quotes
If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
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To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.
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Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.
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If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.
