"You have to hang on in periods when your style isn't popular, because if it's good, it'll come back, and you'll be a recognized beauty once again."
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"Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny."
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"I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish."
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"I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time."
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"You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over."
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"I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do."
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"At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind."
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"Life is the only sentence which doesn't end with a period."
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"I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past."
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"I've often stopped working for long periods."
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"It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was."
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"I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period."
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""Plastic moments" are those periods that overlap when the old has gone but the new has not yet arrived and when the course of history is more open to being shaped and steered than any other time."
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"For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script."
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"I have been so deeply, profoundly lucky to have friends in my life that have always just loved me exactly as I am no matter what time period I'm in."
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"I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view."
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"Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period."
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"I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones."
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"There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them."
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"I would not want to live in any other period."
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