Iris Apfel
Related It's so important to keep moving and don't buy into the myth. I say do anything you feel lik... FLORENCE HENDERSON JENNETTE MCCURDY VANESSA HUDGENS Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a... DAMIAN LEWIS When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you... ALEX TREBEK CAMILA CABELLO HENRY ROLLINS JULIANNE MOORE ROZONDA THOMAS TOMMY CHONG IAN MCSHANE LARRY THE CABLE GUY I think you learn how to fall well when you're figure skating. Your reflexes are very acute. JUD TYLOR KALPANA CHAWLA MALCOLM MCDOWELL FRANCESCA ANNIS MARLA GIBBS I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad da... JULIANNE HOUGH CARL LEWIS DIANNA AGRON FLEA DAVID MITCHELL JANET JACKSON When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your ability and you don'... MICHELLE FAIRLEY ELON MUSK You get to a point where you have to start planning, when you cross that line where you have enough ... CHRIS PRATT When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking... PATRICK O'BRIAN When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energie... FLORENCE WELCH Your ears love to hear, so speak to it SOTONYE ANGA JESSICA STROUP Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you... AARON TVEIT KIRSTEN DUNST It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you&#... ST. LUCIA I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain... ST. LUCIA When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But w... FEFE DOBSON If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've g... EWAN MCGREGOR WENTWORTH MILLER DOVE CAMERON ZENDAYA DEBBIE FORD I'm very active when I'm not pregnant, but I think fitness should be a natural part of your ... JESSICA CAPSHAW ASHTON KUTCHER Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won... IKE BARINHOLTZ MARCELLO GIORDANI I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever... OCTAVIA SPENCER BILL HADER People can tell when you're happy with being you and when you're not. It's only cheesy b... HAYDEN PANETTIERE IAN MCKELLEN PRINCE WILLIAM Scholl Velvet Smooth Express Pedi is just great. You get yourself in a hot bath to soften up your sk... ABBEY CLANCY You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for ... ANN POWERS I haven't written an awful lot recently, but I think I probably will start again very shortly. B... GEORGE SHEARING CARL LEWIS When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH MIRANDA HART CALVIN JOHNSON Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise wha... MARIO TEGUH Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometime... BRUCE WEBER CHRISTOPHER WALKEN ADRIANA TRIGIANI JACQUELINE MACINNES WOOD You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody els... BILLY PORTER ALAN SHEPARD YO-YO MA RICK RIORDAN I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and thin... CLAIRE FOY MITCH ALBOM MORRIE SCHWARTZ I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for ... ABEL FERRARA NEIL PEART The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just... FRANK LOWY KIMORA LEE SIMMONS When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don'... FREDDIE HIGHMORE Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you'... VICTORIA OSTEEN I don't believe that directors need to essentially manipulate actors into doing things. You can ... RUTH NEGGA In the first couple of years when you're transitioning you don't really fit into any gender,... CANDIS CAYNE When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very im... SINEAD O'CONNOR When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very im... SINEAD O'CONNOR AVA DUVERNAY You have to be the one promoting yourself. If you don't think that you're worthy, you're... MISTY COPELAND CINDY CRAWFORD I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut d... TRACY MCMILLAN Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU RICKY MARTIN If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't thi... RACHEL TUCKER Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the the... AL LOPEZ KIRSTEN DUNST When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you... DEXTER GORDON BO BURNHAM JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE LEA THOMPSON MITCH HEDBERG You can't tell young people what to do. You can't tell 'em because they'll look at y... RONNIE JAMES DIO Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidenc... KATE VOEGELE ALBERT FINNEY OCTAVIA BUTLER
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KENNETH APFEL I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just... KENNETH APFEL It's a good financial planning tool, ... We're hoping it will help people understand what Social Sec... KENNETH APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writ... IRIS JOHANSEN I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' wr... IRIS JOHANSEN The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound... IRIS JOHANSEN I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader. IRIS JOHANSEN After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy...... IRIS JOHANSEN I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most peop... IRIS DEMENT If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music prov... IRIS DEMENT I've always written about things that cause me to feel something. IRIS DEMENT My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! IRIS DEMENT Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come rea... IRIS DEMENT Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had. IRIS DEMENT Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in... IRIS DEMENT I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result o... IRIS DEMENT Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up w... IRIS DEMENT Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to... IRIS DEMENT I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and other... IRIS DEMENT I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else. IRIS DEMENT Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel tru... IRIS DEMENT And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long. IRIS DEMENT There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most ... IRIS CHANG Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class d... IRIS CHANG Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces. IRIS CHANG It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history. IRIS CHANG Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe. IRIS CHANG Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else... IRIS CHANG The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments o... IRIS CHANG If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an eco... IRIS CHANG It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out... IRIS CHANG For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's... IRIS CHANG Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerou... IRIS CHANG We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also t... IRIS CHANG I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent ... IRIS CHANG After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau... IRIS CHANG It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more a... IRIS CHANG When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. ... IRIS CHANG Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in ... IRIS CHANG I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. IRIS CHANG I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself,... IRIS CHANG There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engag... IRIS CHANG They probably do have an Asian Barbie. IRIS CHANG I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills. IRIS CHANG Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an... IRIS CHANG Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien. IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off chil... IRIS CHANG There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people star... IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion. IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH The poppy opes her scarlet purse of dreams. SCHARMEL IRIS IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH It took the tenacity and spirit of thousands and thousands of women who worked in an unrelenting way... IRIS NELSON IRIS MURDOCH The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are th... IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance. IRIS JOHANSEN I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows. DONNIE IRIS IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH The lights are all out everywhere. IRIS CHENAULT IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicin... IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH These episodes of racism occur in cycles. IRIS CHANG Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minu... IRIS CHANG I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. IRIS CHANG Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an... IRIS CHANG The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s... IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years. IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereb... IRIS JOHANSEN IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH ...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. L... IRIS ANTHONY IRIS MURDOCH As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to ... IRIS JOHANSEN People were worried; they thought we were going to go to nuclear war when there was a conflict with ... IRIS WEINSHALL We find stuff all the time, but what's sort of eerie about this is that this is a bridge that thousa... IRIS WEINSHALL In attempting to minimize congestion, perhaps we were more cautious than we should have been. IRIS WEINSHALL It's not like we're putting this on eBay. IRIS WEINSHALL
I think it's really important to stay active, even when you're very busy. I know it can get ... 
You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place. 
I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle sch... 
It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't emp... 
I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with some... 
Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it's just who you are. You're embra... 
The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You'... 
When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge y... 
Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you ... 
Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don'... 
You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out ... 
You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yo... 
You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligatio... 
You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no. 
I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects yo... 
It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, an... 
When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just ... 
There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like wor... 
I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about ... 
When you don't feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. ... 
You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time... 
I think it's a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone's an en... 
I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The... 
It's important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know ... 
It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you'... 
I think privacy is valuable. You don't have to share everything, and it's healthy to occasio... 
When you're insecure about your technique, you close yourself off. Your shoulders tighten. The f... 
'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty... 
You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'... 
I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you... 
Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created thi... 
Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you g... 
You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're... 
You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do... 
I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in... 
Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you&#... 
You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited ... 
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of fa... 
It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have... 
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy do... 
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy do... 
I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't ju... 
I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take ... 
If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. Yo... 
Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everythin... 
You just have to get rid of fear and confront the world. Look at yourself in the mirror and say to y... 
I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm... 
The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're... 
As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-loo... 
It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have han... 
I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch... 
A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think ... 
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself. 
I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity. 
Anything that's feathery-looking, I love. 
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. 
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. 
Anything that consoles is fake. 