Alessandro Michele Quotes
I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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I started attending community college when I was 14 or 15, just doing general education stuff like history and mathematics. Then I went on to California State University Long Beach to pursue a degree in journalism. And then I ended up dropping out to found Oculus.
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If you want to investigate, we will be willing to assist.
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The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.
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The thing that I always try and say to young people starting out is your peer group is really the most important influence on your life because you are going to rise and fall together.
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The work of black creatives seems to always get undermined in one way or another, and that's what this new generation is actively changing by speaking up. We aren't accepting group categorization and group classifications to describe our work anymore - it just leads to group dismissal.
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I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.
