George Zimmer Quotes
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
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Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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When I'm working, even though it's sometimes challenging and difficult, there's still no place I would rather be.
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I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
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I have to enjoy every moment.
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Producers are so much better-educated in issues related to terrorism.
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In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our future would be better than our past, that our common problems would be solved, that we, as a species, were fundamentally good, and that the universe would reward us for our goodness.
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I believe in giving people a second chance.
