Angela Ahrendts Quotes
My father smoked cigars his whole life, and my husband once in a while does. And when he does, it reminds me of my father. It's a heartwarming thing.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
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If one was told that monkeys had built it, one could only say, 'What wonderful monkeys - they must be shot in case they do it again.'
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I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation.
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Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.
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Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
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My father smoked cigars his whole life, and my husband once in a while does. And when he does, it reminds me of my father. It's a heartwarming thing.
