Carolina Herrera Quotes
I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
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I've never been one to have to manipulate women. I always want it to be like a mutual thing, like everybody loves everybody.
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That’s what libraries were for: to make sure that everybody had the same access to the same books everyone else did.
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Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.
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There's room for Spike Lee's movies; there's room for Tyler Perry's movies. There's room for classics with an all black cast. There's room for all of it as long as we don't try to make any one piece define us as a race.
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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
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I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
