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Colleen Atwood

"Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie."

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"Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie."

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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

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"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

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"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

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"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

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"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media."

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"After an eight-hour day workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results."

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"Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants."

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"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on."

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"At home I am a man, at work I am a machine."

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"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."

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"The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired."
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"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need."
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"In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them."
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"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."
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"Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie."
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"The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all."
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"I've always loved movies, art and clothes."
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"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."
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"I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards."
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"As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things."
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