Alice Temperley Quotes

It's a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection.

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• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Real
  • History

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Real
  • Humble
  • Dignity

• Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Live
  • Real
  • Risk

• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Real
  • Enjoy
  • Hunger

• My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Work
  • Book
  • House

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Alone

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Work
  • Real
  • Boy

• Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Real
  • Feeling
  • Moments

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • Up
  • Real
  • Trying

• Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Real
  • Happiness
  • Goal

• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Real
  • Practice

• I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • People
  • Men
  • Real

• I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Successful
  • Take
  • Therapy

• I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Black
  • Reading

• Words like 'freedom,' 'justice,' 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

  

  James Baldwin
  • People
  • Words
  • Freedom

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.

  

  S. J. Watson
  • Difficult
  • Middle
  • Hindsight

• It's a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Real
  • Mood