Les Wexner Quotes
In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
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I think it's important here to keep something in mind. I mean, when you're looking at last night and you see Matt Lauer unable to tell Donald Trump, "Hey, you know what? You're lying here."
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.
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In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.
