Benedetta Tagliabue Quotes
I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I am not alone. I am free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody, I don't have to be a first to anybody. I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.
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The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
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The world tells us to be mean and bitter to survive. But I believe kindness is the very thing that makes us thrive.
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Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.
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I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.
