Runway Quotes - Page 4

• I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.

  William Gibson

  Eight, Years, Two

  Source: craphound.com

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• I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.

  Gigi Hadid

  Get Better, Trying, Steps

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I was afraid that that Catch-22 would cause VR to fail to achieve liftoff. That worry is now gone. Facebook's acquisition of Oculus means that VR is going to happen in all its glory. The resources and long-term commitment that Facebook brings gives Oculus the runway it needs to solve the hard problems of VR – and some of them are hard indeed. I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can.

  Michael Abrash

  Mean, Commitment, Careers

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• As a model I had a lot of success when I was 17 and 18 years old. It was before social media, before the world was what the world is, but even then it was terrifying, to be 18 years old and people knowing who you are, and I was this personality who was completely devoid of who I actually was. It was almost like being a manufactured boy band. You're sort of like a wind up doll; they wind you up and put you on the runway or something like that.

  Karen Elson

  Boys, Media, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not just retiring from the runway, I'm retiring from all modeling. God, I love saying that! When I was 18, my mom said I have to have a plan. I decided I'd leave on top. I want to be like the athletes who seem stuck in time. When you see them at 50, you say they probably can still run like a champ.

  Tyra Banks

  Mom, Running, Athlete

  "Tyra Banks struts off runway, for good". "The Associated Press" Interview, www.today.com. December 2, 2005.

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• New Rule: News organizations have to stop using the phrase: "We go beyond the headlines." That's your job, dummy. You don't see American Airlines saying, "We land our jets on the runway"!

  Bill Maher

  Jobs, Land, Organization

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.140, Rodale

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• When it comes to Project Runway, for me the most memorable look ever presented goes back to season one, episode one, when Austin Scarlett created a ravishing cocktail dress out of cornhusks. It was really amazing.

  Tim Gunn

  Memorable, Austin, Dresses

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• I definitely take inspiration from runway trends but also throughout my travels, I see editorials all over in all of the different publications.

  Olivia Palermo

  Inspiration, Different, Trends

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I have this great fear of people - not when I'm on the runway, but backstage. In a room full of people, I really suffer. I sort of go into a tunnel and I feel very removed. I get so tense, I can't swallow, and my heartbeat goes way up. It still happens now, although I'm better at controlling it.

  Linda Evangelista

  Tunnels, People, Suffering

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• As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway.

  Demetri Martin

  Airplane, Thank God, Forgotten

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• I love mixing and playing with different textures and the whole taking different designers and mixing them - I was one of the first, I think, to not do a full runway look, yet there's always a method to the madness, which is the harmonious discord.

  Lori Goldstein

  Thinking, Mixing, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We live in a world where it has become politically correct to avoid
  absolutes. Many want all religions to be given the same honor, and all gods
  regarded as equally true and equally fictitious. But take these same
  people, who want fuzzy, all-inclusive thinking in spiritual matters, and
  put them on an airplane. You will find they insist on a very dogmatic,
  intolerant pilot who will stay on the straight and narrow glidepath so
  their life will not come to a violent end short of the runway. They want no
  fuzzy thinking here!

  Jack T. Chick

  Spiritual, Airplane, Thinking

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• The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Suits, Jogging

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• My mom was a seamstress, and I wish I'd learned to sew because I'm obsessed with 'Project Runway!'

  Carmen Electra

  Mom, Wish, Obsessed

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• Looking natural takes so long! If you look at the runways, the look for models is predominantly natural, isn't it?

  Olivia Wilde

  Long, Looks, Natural

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Fashion, Reality, Watches

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• Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But in the back of his mind, he knows exactly what to do (or pretty much) and in many cases, if he's alone in the fighter aircraft, he has to leave that aircraft in an ejection seat in a big hurry!

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Dwelling, Mind

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

  Naomi Campbell

  Real, Capes, Saint

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• I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.

  Matthew Williamson

  Fashion, Dresses, Designer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You always want to see people who are just like a little outside of the box. Maybe making mistakes sometimes. Not taking something that's straight off the runway, but mixing and matching things. Old and new.

  Jacob Hashimoto

  Mistake, People, Mixing

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.

  Mehcad Brooks

  Beautiful, Girl, Couple

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what we have, there would have been many regional brands that would have succeeded. But I'm not sure there would have been a national brand of the scope of Starbucks.

  Howard Schultz

  Thinking, Scope, Platforms

  "Starbucks at 40: Java juggernaut branches out". Interview with Bruce Horovitz, www.usatoday.com. March 10, 2011.

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• I wish I could wear clothes straight off the runway.

  Katharine McPhee

  Clothes, Wish

  "Katharine McPhee Shares Her Recurring Halloween Fear With Us - Does This Scare You Too?" by Grace Gavilanes, www.glamour.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I have to make a dress out of recycled materials for my kid's preschool 'Project Runway' - like assignment. I'm currently fusing plastic bags.

  Busy Philipps

  Kids, Dresses, Bags

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even you'll be ashamed of yourself! No wonder you've so few friends; you're unbelievable!

  Peter Cook

  Flower, Bangs, Burgers

  "Fictional character: George Spiggott". "Bedazzled", www.imdb.com. December 10, 1967.

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