Colleen Atwood Quotes

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Colleen Atwood

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• I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

  

  Sally Field
  • Best
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

• My body is my greatest asset.

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Body
  • Greatest
  • Asset

• There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Focus
  • Scary
  • Celebrity

• In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Peace
  • Vietnam War

• The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Most

• Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Life
  • Cool

• When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Working
  • Research

• The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • History
  • Past

• My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Career
  • Failure
  • Repetition

• Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

  Gail Devers
  • Life
  • Character
  • Strong

• The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Up
  • Always
  • Blood

• It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Song
  • Artist

• My worst ever car was a green Datsun B210, back when they called it 'Datsun' - now it's 'Nissan.' Very unsexy, unattractive. Girls hated the car. I was embarrassed to even be in it... but it was my transportation.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Car
  • Green
  • Transportation

• If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Energy
  • Me
  • Band

• You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment and you don't capture it, it's rare to get that moment again.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Great
  • You
  • Moment

• Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Life
  • She
  • Girl

• If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Job
  • Husband
  • Confused

• Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

  

  Martina McBride
  • Music
  • Country
  • Dad

• It’s always the goal to win the Super Bowl, and by me being able to come home and play, that was like icing on the cake. You can drop the* *cherry on it, the strawberry and the sprinkles.

  

  Jacoby Jones
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Cake

• I never think about the knockouts. I go into every fight, do my work, and none of that stuff puts pressure on me at all.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Work
  • Fight
  • Pressure

• Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

  

  Colleen Atwood