Azzedine Alaia Quotes

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.

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• I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Space
  • Here
  • Sold

• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from it. I think you can absolutely do that. It's more about hair colour and complexion.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Hair
  • Red

• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Different
  • Lost

• The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Parents
  • Christmas
  • Year

• Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Business
  • Risk
  • About

• In the case of the cashew, someone, somewhere, a long time ago determined that it had to be roasted. The cashew was once nicknamed the blister nut, because if you try to eat it raw from the tree, your mouth pays the price. The cashew is not a nut, however; it's a seed.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Tree

• As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone should talk about our films.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • World
  • Acting
  • Films

• I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Why

• When I was 17 years old, Frank DiLeo saw my very first music video and flew to my hometown of Las Vegas to meet with my family and me. Frank told my dad, 'I am coming out of retirement to manage one last big act: Manika.'

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Family
  • Dad

• I said, 'I'm going to the United States to study with Stella Adler and do movies because nobody here has done it and my passion is films.' But I came here and I didn't speak English, I didn't have a green card, I didn't know I had to have an agent, I couldn't drive, I was dyslexic.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Done
  • Passion
  • Study

• I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Government
  • Progressive

• I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.

  

  Carla Bley
  • America
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Learn
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• I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Want
  • Expectations

• I always root for the defense.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Always
  • Defense
  • Root

• Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in art and religion.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Science
  • Technology

• The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Long

• I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Today
  • Lost
  • Walking

• I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf.

  

  Liz Goldwyn
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Feminist

• For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Gun

• I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move.

  

  Dorothy Hamill
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Study

• I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Play
  • Theatre
  • Company

• Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • Ballet