Alexa Chung Quotes
London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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Think and grow rich.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.
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The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
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You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.
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It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.
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We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
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London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.
