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"Style is not a reward for the skinny. It's not, 'iI I'm rich, thin and young.' You may not like your size, but then don't invest in leather leggings. Let yourself want the expensive bag and really love it and show it off and have a ball with it."
"If there are people who like the work you've done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that's really gratifying. You have to be appreciative."
"Take what you want, and pay for it."
"Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do."
"It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later."
"I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left."
"If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about."
"If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out."
"If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you. You can't have all that you want if you remain the person you are. To get more from life, you need to be more in life."
"I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one."
"One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee."
"I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life."
"I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know."
"I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family."
"Information wants to be free."
"Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive."
"But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever."
"I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future."
"An informed patriotism is what we want."
"I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales."
