Alice Temperley Quotes
I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
-
It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
-
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
-
As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
-
Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
-
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
-
Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
-
I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
-
It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
-
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
-
Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
-
It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
-
I don't do meetings.
-
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
-
One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
-
I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
-
There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
-
It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
-
Trust yourself and don't do anything that doesn't feel right.
-
Happiness is a good flow of life.
-
The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.
-
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
-
That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
-
I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.
