Tadashi Shoji Quotes
So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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I am healthy and happy.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Time stays, we go.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.
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I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
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Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.
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We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.
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So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.
