Azzedine Alaia Quotes
My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I listen to all kinds of music, honestly.
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I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.
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I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.
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Women have helped shape our world, yet still do not receive the recognition and compensation they deserve.
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I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.
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My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.
