Alexander McQueen Quotes
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As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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I was a complete outsider in high school.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
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I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
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My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
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I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm Not There.' I literally finished filming Elizabethan grandeur on Friday, flew to Montreal, and started being Bob Dylan on Monday.
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Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or individuals who will oversee and control the Leviathan. Are not the latter also of flesh and blood? Hobbes seems to be saying that man’s nature cannot be trusted but the nature of a ruler or a ruling assembly of men can be trusted. How so?
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
