Raf Quotes

• At LVMH, we have amazing heritage brands, and we put interesting talents in those brands, sometimes very young, like we did at Givenchy with Riccardo Tisci at the time, or like we just did with J.W. Anderson at Loewe, but also talents that are already further along in their careers, like Raf Simons at Christian Dior or Nicolas at Vuitton.

  Delphine Arnault

  Christian, Careers, Interesting

  "Delphine Arnault Rising". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. April 14, 2014.

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• My first feature film was a movie called 'A Gunfight,' with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It was shot in Santa Fe, Mexico, in 1970, and it was directed by Lamont Johnson. It was the first gig I did when I got to California from having done 'Hair' in New York on Broadway for a year. It was a Western, though! But that film was not a successful release.

  Keith Carradine

  New York, Successful, Hair

  "Keith Carradine on 'Deadwood,' 'Fargo,' and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.

  Mike Oldfield

  Wings, Pilots, Realised

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• It would be nice to be a professional pilot. I'm an amateur pilot at the moment. I've got a lot of friends in the RAF and I don't think I've ever met a group of people who love their job as much as they do.

  Martin Shaw

  Jobs, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I don't find it difficult anymore, because these days, Raf is only men and Dior is only women. I found it much more complicated when I was doing Jil Sander for men and women. It wasn't that it was the same, but I'm specific about where I want to go, and when you suddenly have to do two men's collections in the same moment, that was more difficult.

  Raf Simons

  Men, Two, Dior

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning home on compassionate leave. As a result, my mother had to get work, as a nurse, and at seven the RAF put me into a boarding school and ex-orphanage called the Royal Wolverhampton School.

  Eric Idle

  Mother, Father, War

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going to HQ at Schleswig in my 'Grand Charles.' Coming back I had taken him high up in the cloudless summer sky, for it was only there that I could fittingly take my leave. Together we climbed for the last time straight towards the sun. We looped once, perhaps twice, we lovingly did a few slow, meticulous rolls, so that I could take away in my finger-tips the vibration of his supple, docile wings.

  Pierre Clostermann

  Summer, Morning, Farewell

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• I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertakers assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

  Brian Blessed

  Dream, Father, Military

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• Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

  Bob Hoskins

  Actors, Hollywood, Film

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• On one occasion, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons and myself were due to appear at the Sarajevo film festival and were turned off a UN plane on orders from Geneva. We had to get local journalists to transport the films in for us. I tell you this only to demonstrate that festivals can be a lifeline. But, after all the difficulties I'd had in getting there, in 1996 I found myself being flown in on a four-seater RAF plane as an official guest, endorsed by the British Embassy. Ironically, the film I was to present was Mission: Impossible.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Order, Iron, Four

  "Vanessa Redgrave: 'I want to give people the jolliest time'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2012.

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• I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.

  Nina Bawden

  Two, Cadets, Necks

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