Andre Leon Talley Quotes
The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
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I'm very confident in my sexuality, and I really don't like talking about my romantic life in the press.
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It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.
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The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.
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The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.
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Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.
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The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.
