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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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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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 had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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One day about 10 years ago the door to my office opened and who walked in but Bill Gates.... Seemed like a nice guy and has done more with his money than most billionaires. But that's as far as I want to go being kind to Bill Gates.
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Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.
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Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
