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Quotes by Designer

"Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this."

"We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness."

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

"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."

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

"The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had."

"I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was."

"I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."

"I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention."

"I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game."

"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."

"I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie."

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

"People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train."

"No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales."

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

"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."

"The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith."

"I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful."

"Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography."

"In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need."

"British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage."

"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."

"I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry."

"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music."

"I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board."

"The difference between style and fashion is quality."

"I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come."

"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."
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