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.
Val Kilmer
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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.
Olga Kurylenko
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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.
Laura Robson
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
Carice van Houten
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
Randy Newman
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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.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
Patricia Highsmith
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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.
Mal Peet
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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.'
Adam Hamilton
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
D. A. Pennebaker
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
Daniel Bruhl
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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.
Okky Madasari
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
Harold Budd
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers -
Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
Parker Posey
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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.
Kat Graham
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The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.
Lisa Bonet
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I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.
Saint Augustine
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We're not even going to discuss it. It's a basketball team and we've got to focus on what we need to do.
Phil Jackson
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I always loved bluegrass, but there was so much I didn't know about American country music in respect to the origins of this country. It was interesting to see the evolution of it.
Clare Bowen
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
Taylor Lautner
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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.
Hubert de Givenchy