Hubert de Givenchy Quotes
In the early '50s, it was still the time of Christian Dior's New Look. Every dress was big and important, and I thought I must do something completely different. Women needed something for daytime that was wearable.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
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'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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'Do you know,' said Maclaren, 'there is one sin which is punished with unfailing certainty, and must therefore be the deadliest sin in all time. Stupidity.'
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
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In the early '50s, it was still the time of Christian Dior's New Look. Every dress was big and important, and I thought I must do something completely different. Women needed something for daytime that was wearable.
