Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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Related As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound i... HAROLD MACMILLAN I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way eac... JAMES TURRELL I hate the terminology of 'costume' because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they... CHRISTIAN SIRIANO Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason... JONATHAN IVE There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie. CAROLINA HERRERA I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, w... JOAN COLLINS It was very well received. It enables them to clean up their homes, to help each other clean up thei... BRIAN SAGERT I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very stron... MERYL STREEP Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately. LARRY WILMORE 'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marv... JASON AARON It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to ... COLLEEN ATWOOD But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day. JONNY GREENWOOD Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, idea... PAULO COELHO They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because... AMIT KALANTRI I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition t... ADAM SAVAGE None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period ... QUENTIN TARANTINO I've changed Sydney. It's my city, my people. I'm theirs. We belong to each other. HARRY TRIGUBOFF Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like... EMERIL LAGASSE It's so funny because when I talk about fashion and menswear designers, it's really like a s... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's ... TATIANA MASLANY I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building en... WALT DISNEY Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and t... CLIVE ANDERSON But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actress... RACHEL HUNTER It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me ... JONATHAN IVE Ford has been a part of the business for many, many years. DONALD GOLDBERG All good things were at one time bad things; every original sin has developed into an original virtu... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman... CATHERINE BELL I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my ... KYLIE JENNER If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven'... JEAN KERR Visual Sciences has been acting in stealth mode for the past three years, and they by far have the m... BRYAN EISENBERG I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claimin... EDDY GRANT I think there's a sort of agony with all intelligent and very creative designers that it's o... SUZY MENKES If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but... CARINE ROITFELD Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. ... STEVEN SPIELBERG Robert Altman's 'Nashville' is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases... DOUGLAS WOOD There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all... MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's just part of the game. I just kept my head up and tried to other things to help my teammates ... IVORY LATTA The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an... SETH GODIN Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other archi... STEPHEN BAYLEY ''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other a... STEPHEN BAYLEY You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. S... BRANTLEY GILBERT In addition to all the good things it's done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people ... TUCKER CARLSON The modern designers are quite showy, and a lot of the young people really like it. Costume jewelry ... JUDITH MILLER We were friends for a year before we started playing music together. We both think it's pretty i... JOSH DUN Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countl... KATHARINE WEYMOUTH Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everyth... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long trac... BONNIE BLAIR My folks met at the University of Oklahoma, in the theater department in the 1940s. They were marrie... RON HOWARD My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's ... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not ra... KEN ROBINSON It's a matriarchal family, the Carters. A.P. was the original head of the Carter family, but the... CARLENE CARTER Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his pa... WILL THOMAS Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bol... TOM PETERS A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, ... JANE HARMAN The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas. ALICE WEAVER FLAHERTY Unfortunately, the business side of the game shows its head every once in a while. But I still think... JAKE ARRIETA I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas... COLLEEN ATWOOD I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with id... DANA SCHUTZ Things that we need to learn are the importance of establishing brand, establishing market presence.... CHARLES GIANCARLO It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly rea... SUZANNE COLLINS Unfortunately, those companies grew up, and part of that entrepreneurial culture was lost for some p... JAY KATARINCIC Racism, unfortunately, is part of the fabric of America's society. DAVID SCOTT The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressi... JOHN SINGER SARGENT I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the h... PHILIPPE PETIT A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o... ELVIS PRESLEY It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In any head-to-head comparison, hands down, we win. Our dual core has been outperforming theirs for ... TERESA DE ONIS For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for o... ARTURO O'FARRILL What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where... TED DEUTCH That's why I hate the outlines and treatments, because all you get are cliches. If you put thing... WHIT STILLMAN My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take t... KEN LIU We're in the business of selling pleasure. We don't sell handbags or haute couture. We sell ... ALAIN WERTHEIMER If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you cou... NOEL GALLAGHER It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already... CHARLES H. TOWNES Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id... DON DELILLO Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the streng... ROBERT REDFORD Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't eve... DAVID S. GOYER It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses arou... GARY HERBERT I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size f... KANYE WEST It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get invol... JON RUNYAN If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. ... ADAM MCKAY What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse netwo... STEVEN JOHNSON My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like ... ELIZABETH JAGGER My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. ... JAMES MCNERNEY It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is... RUPERT MURDOCH We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours f... MOHNISH PABRAI Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been ... AYRTON SENNA As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short project... NICK PARK I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to m... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I have been Princess Leia exclusively. It's been a part of my life for 40 years. CARRIE FISHER It's a spinoff of the original Cracker Jack, but it's Cracker Jack'd. Frito Lay, when th... ASHLEY TISDALE I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world.... OLIVIER THEYSKENS Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other con... MICHAEL SHERMER I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not som... HALEY BENNETT The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me. MICHAEL DIRDA Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alri... KATE O'MARA It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The ... BEN STEIN Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I foun... RASHID JOHNSON
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