Kevyn Aucoin Quotes

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

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• When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
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• I never pursued being 'famous.'

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Never
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• I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
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• I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
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• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• A well-aimed spear is worth three.

  

  Tad Williams
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• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
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• I was so ashamed of who I was.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Ashamed
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• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
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• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

  

  Talia Balsam
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  • Family
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• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
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• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  

  Natalie Portman
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• Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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  • Always
  • Humor

• I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

  

  Tea Obreht
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• Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Sweet
  • Savage

• He had what we often lack — the maturity to see that faith isn’t something you either have or don’t have, but something that ebbs and flows in the life and soul of every individual. Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith. It is an element of faith. Where there is absolute certainty, there can be no room for faith.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
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• People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. People know I'm silly and are on board with what I'm bringing to the table. I see the boyfriends who got dragged to the show by their girlfriends, and by the end, they're laughing harder than anybody. That's the best feeling: 'I knew I was going to get you.'

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • People
  • Fun
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• You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different, and critics say we make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different, and you get kicked in the gut for it.

  

  David Ayer
  • Different

• At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Value
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• When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

  

  Kevyn Aucoin
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