Up Quotes
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Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street.
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When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.
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When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.
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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
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The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
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What Joe and I love about the film industry, it's like the wild West. We're two guys who grew up a million miles away from the film business; it doesn't matter where you come from or where you go to school. All that matters is, can you find a way to practice the craft and express yourself in a way that people respond to.
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I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
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In my neighborhood growing up, 8, 10,12 kids were the norm. Those stay-at-home moms would handle so much physically and emotionally. Even in my early teens, I could tell those ladies were something.
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I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.
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The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.
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This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you.
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I think the Emmy obviously is very prestigious and is the gold standard obviously in terms of television. But the Oscars go beyond that. I believe children, when they're growing up, dream of holding that Oscar.
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Just set yourself a goal and try and stick to it. Because you'll always end up better than where you started.
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In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.
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Growing up in Manhattan has given me a thick skin.
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Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
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As I grew up, I started practising gymnastics. I love dancing as well. So that keeps me fit.
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I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.
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I’m going to go ahead and go boldlyCuz a little bird told meThat jumping is easyThat falling is funRight up ‘til you hit the sidewalkShivering and stunned.
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But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.
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Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. 'Yeah, he got covered up,' is a way coal miners refer to fathers and brothers and sons who got buried alive.
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
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If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics.
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
