Alex Shoumatoff Quotes
The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
Alex Shoumatoff
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Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
Harold Prince
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I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
Kaki King
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I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
Campbell Scott
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
Lana Del Rey
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I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'
Olga Kurylenko
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The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
Carla Hall
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We talked about the talent in the room, the fact that we represent the United States of America, and just making sure they understood how everybody is coming after us. . . . They're all aware of doing whatever it takes.
Buck Martinez
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I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence, language, syntax, compression, concision, complexity and diversity that the Internet offers - books still make sense.
David Shields
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People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.'
Li Na
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
Alex Shoumatoff
