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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I think the frustration you can get into as a young artist is when you realize your limitations, but you want to accomplish that rather than seeing that you don't have to do everything. Just focus on your strengths.
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To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
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My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.
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For me, to have my family with me is very important.
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Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.
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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.
