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Quotes by Designer

"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."

"What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!"

"We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears."

"You know like it has its own personality, its own character."

"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."

"It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic."

"I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics."

"I'm not selling sex. I'm selling underwear and jeans, and I'm not trying to do it with pornography."

"You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things."

"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now."

"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."

"I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy."

"I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink."

"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

"Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out."

"I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked."

"I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place."

"We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns."
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"And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you."

"We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part."

"I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me."

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

"I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold."

"We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric."
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