Alice Temperley Quotes
I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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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.
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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.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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I don't do meetings.
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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.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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in general, I feel most comfortable between known quantities.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
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I thought that after such a long time of not letting her be with me. I would like to bring her back into my life.
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I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.
