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
  • Famous
  • Being Famous

• For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
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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
  • God
  • Bad
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• A well-aimed spear is worth three.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Three
  • Worth
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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
  • Kind
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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
  • Star
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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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• 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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  • Live
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• Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Humor

• American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • American
  • Today

• I grew up seeing so many stereotypes on TV, and I didn't want to play that as well.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Up

• With Fancy Bear, we have medium-level confidence it's GRU, which is Russia's military intelligence agency, and with Cozy Bear, we have low-level confidence it's FSB, the Russian federal security service.

  

  Dmitri Alperovitch
  • Confidence
  • Military
  • Service

• For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Life
  • Time
  • Reality

• Get but a truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new born that drops into its place; And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake. Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Earth

• 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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  • Men