- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matter Quotes
On what actually counts.
This page starts with a striking reframe of confinement as something that can happen mentally even to people who are physically free, and pairs it with career advice about simply landing that first entry-level role. For related thinking, see Life.
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- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the suits I buy have to be tailored, no matter what. But it's not just because of my height; it's because I've been skating for so long. My waist is very small, but my legs are just huge. Most really nice suit makers are Italian, and usually they make suit pants for Italian men. I'm like, 'Those Italians must have pretty skinny legs.'
- Destiny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting into drag almost seemed like, not my destiny, but you know how a caterpillar is gonna become a butterfly no matter what? It felt very like that.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sustainable production and consumption matter immensely to the people I meet every day as head of the International Trade Centre, which works with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them boost growth and job creation by improving their competitiveness and connecting to international markets.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sequel is going to be a pressure no matter who directs it. A sequel is only made when the original film works.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some people that just attract violence to them. No matter where they go, they'll find a fight.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
'6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.
- Rich
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
- Disapprove
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- Nov 07, 2020