Anna Sui Quotes
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
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Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
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African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. (p. 44)
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I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.
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We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.
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Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.
