Francoise Giroud quotes
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“Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore.”
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“You can domesticate your body, but you can't domesticate your face - even by having a lift or having your nose bobbed. A face bears the reflection of our nature, which in the beginning is veiled by the attractiveness of youth. But as soon as youth begins to go, everything written on the face starts to come to the surface, and pretty soon it's engraved there. No landscape can equal a human face that's been molded by its own owner.”
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“Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth”
-- Francoise GiroudSource : Françoise Giroud, Claude Glayman (1974). “I Give You My Word”
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“Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.”
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“Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.”
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“Being a professional ... is making fewer mistakes than others, as few as possible.”
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“Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.”
-- Francoise Giroud
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“I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.”
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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.”
Source : Alan McGlashan (1988). “The Savage and Beautiful Country: The Secret Life of the Mind”, p.112, Daimon
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Source : Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) (2009). “Calder: Sculptor of Air”, 24 Ore Cultura
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Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.484, Open Road Media
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