Ann Demeulemeester Quotes
My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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Make yourself known as a philosopher, that is a free man.
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I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.
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What would I advise an aspiring young entrepreneur? Certainly I'd say read the works of great entrepreneurs and investors like Ben Horowitz, Peter Thiel, and many others. But what's more important is to get real experience at a great startup.
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I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.
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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
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My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.
