Azzedine Alaia Quotes
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.
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Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.
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Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.
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Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.
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I make clothes; women make fashion.
