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Quotes by Designer

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

"I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues."

"I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections."

"I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features."

"I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20."

"You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there."
Home,

"Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that."

"We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp."

"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history."

"When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend."

"The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea."

"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."

"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."

"Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie."

"I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird."

"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it."

"I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will."

"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."

"My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily."

"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."

"We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet."
May,


"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."

"People read things into my commercials that don't even exist."

"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."

"I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards."
Work,
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