Coco Chanel Quotes
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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I want to have a long career.
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In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
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I don't even think I'll see all of 'The Mist' until I'm 18. I'm going to the premiere, but I'll close my eyes during the scarier scenes.
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The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'
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I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
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Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.
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Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
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Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
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Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.
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The trick is to be there when it's settled.
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In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.
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Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
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I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?
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Esperando (Cuando Cuba Sea Libre) is probably one of the most personal songs from the new [September, 2007] CD, "90 Millas" . . . as it really speaks about the celebration, nostalgia and emotion that will happen the day Cuba is free. If we're to move forward in Cuba, we really have to have a lot of forgiveness for each other and look towards the future.
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Wagner is the Puccini of music.
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Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.
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A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.
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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.
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Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!
