Hubert de Givenchy Quotes
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?
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These are the visionary, mystical moments, when a man 'completes his partial mind'. His everyday conscious self is only a small part of the mind, like the final crescent of the moon. In moments of crisis, the full moon suddenly appears.
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I always wanted children, to be a dad. That was as important to me as being an actor.
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My parents kept me very grounded.
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Life is like a book: one has to know when to turn the page.
