Oscar de la Renta Quotes
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I aspire only to silence.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
