Azzedine Alaia Quotes
As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
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The attraction of power is heady, addictive. And as we know from real life, it can be a disease. A horrific disease.
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I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching my grandmother lose her memories is, you know, we are all facing erasure eventually.
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I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.
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As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.
