Azzedine Alaia Quotes

You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.

Azzedine Alaia

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
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  • Birth: February 26, 1940

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If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

Jim Starlin

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The real writing of a piece comes only when you are performing it. It is why I like theatre. In film and TV, the image is locked forever, but in theatre, there is constant change; each performance is part of the writing process.

Robert Lepage

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Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn't there. It was total exposure.

Matt Haig

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I think, as a chef and restaurateur, that you have to take care of your business. Otherwise, you're only as good as your last meal. You have to watch if your food costs are too high, or you could be out of business in no time.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

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I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

Michael Hutchence

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Nothing in baseball can bring me down to the level where I was growing up in Pine Bluff, crying and broke. This is fun for me. Whenever you see me slumping, nah, I don't get upset; I'm all right.

Torii Hunter

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For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to return my book. I would just check it out again and again. Every week. For a whole year. The object of my fourth-grade filibuster was 'D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths.'

Robin Sloan

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I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

Rutger Hauer

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And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.

Rowan Atkinson

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Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies.

Roxane Gay

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I feel that there is not an endlessly expandable universe of fiction readers.

Jonathan Galassi

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Werewolves and Arabians. It's like chocolate and peanut butter - a delicious combination.

Anne Bishop

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