Azzedine Alaia Quotes
I'm happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. My friends, that's the one thing I'm sure about.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
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I still get excited by working with big names. You have that initial moment of, 'Oh my goodness, I'm going to work with Tom Cruise!'
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Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.
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But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
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Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
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I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
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Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.
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I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
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I rely on the promise, 'God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.'
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I'm happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. My friends, that's the one thing I'm sure about.
