Hubert de Givenchy Quotes
You work around a body and adapt the clothes to your own customer, and this is the interesting part. This is why the haute couture exists: because in ready-to-wear, you have not too much fitting.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor.
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Shipwrecks are incredible mysteries.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.
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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
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You work around a body and adapt the clothes to your own customer, and this is the interesting part. This is why the haute couture exists: because in ready-to-wear, you have not too much fitting.
