Paloma Picasso Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
Candice Olson -
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
Barry Eisler -
It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
Olivier Martinez -
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley -
I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
Octavia Spencer -
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
Barbara Kruger
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
Jack Vance -
Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
H. R. McMaster -
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
Harold Bloom -
Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
Larry Ellison -
All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
Walter de La Mare -
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.
Magnus Scheving
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
Paloma Picasso -
Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
Victoria Legrand Beach House -
When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.
Edgar Wright -
I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
Frances Farmer -
The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.
Halldor Laxness
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I'm a total foodie.
Dana Goodyear -
On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
Yelena Baturina -
Powell finishes his answer, admitting much of the information he had been given about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Keith Olbermann -
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith -
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
Paloma Picasso