Alber Elbaz Quotes
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In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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I believe the most important thing for the media is to be objective, fair, and balanced. We should not report a story with preconceptions or prejudice.
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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.
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When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.
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I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.
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In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.
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In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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Every time we get days off, we try to go home and record five or six songs.
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I've never seen anything like the way some young people behave. They go out on a date, and they're sitting opposite each other at a table, and they're not looking at each other, and they text each other as though they're deaf-mutes. It's insane.
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I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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Friedan: I thought it was absolutely outrageous that the Silence of the Lambs won four Oscars. ... I'm not saying that the movie shouldn't have been shows. I'm not denying the movie was an artistic triumph, but it was about the evisceration, the skinning alive of women. That is what I find offensive. Not the Playboy centerfold.
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L.A. is wonderful. They have something called sleep dentistry. You just go there, and they put you to sleep and go, 'Drrrrrr,' and by the time you wake up a few hours later, you have a whole new set of teeth. I mean, whatever you want them to do.
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I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read.
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Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn't after what she wants by the top of page two, you get treated as if you've failed at writing.
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If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
