Alexander McQueen Quotes
People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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I'm often troubled by a very strong instinct to share everything that's going on with me. I want to feel that connection, even with people I don't know. Then this other voice says, 'That's not prudent. People will use what you've said to hurt you.'
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People ask me, 'How do you remember your lines?' That's nothing. That is the least of my concerns.
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We need smarter, 21st-century budget guardrails that would gradually trim the size of Washington in order to spur private investment, create jobs, and boost the income of hard-working Americans on Main Street.
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Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.
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People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality.
