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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld
Good
You
Seen
Young
Think
Too
France
Ability
Some
Gives
Very
America
Businessmen
Designers
Here
I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
Carine Roitfeld
Great
Me
People
Writing
Picture
Great Artist
Extraordinary
Books
Say
Photo
Photo Shoots
Something
Am
Doing
Shoots
Artist
Just
Note
Ask
Painter
Why
Streets
We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women over 60... So there is culture here in France that even if you are older, you can stay beautiful.
Carine Roitfeld
Beautiful
You
Woman
Culture
Women
People
Looking
Older
France
Stay
Paris
Betty
Over
Like
Sort
La
Even
Older Woman
Here
I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.
Carine Roitfeld
Buy
You
Protection
Try
Clothes
Think
Slip
Dress
Something
Having
More
Take
Like
French
Because
Go
Discovered
Off
Shop
Going
Which
Your
Even
Things
Suit
Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
Carine Roitfeld
Fashion
Reflection
Language
Society
Sure
I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
Carine Roitfeld
People
Way
Something
Like
Call
Because
Always
Am
Least
Condescending
Impression
Intellectuals
Themselves
Who
Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
Carine Roitfeld
Buy
Fashion
You
People
Sense
Something
Most
Need
It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
Carine Roitfeld
You
People
Advice
Always
Ask
Fun
If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
Carine Roitfeld
You
Change
Bored
Doing
Get
Want
You lose attitude when you feel too comfortable, so I prefer to wear clothes that have a certain edge to them.
Carine Roitfeld
Attitude
You
Edge
Lose
Clothes
Too
Wear
Feel
Comfortable
Prefer
Them
Certain
Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.'
Carine Roitfeld
Fashion
Yourself
Try
Be Yourself
Important
Worldwide
Approach
Trends
Take
Globalisation
Becoming
Offer
Middle
Hard
Unique
Amidst
When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.
Carine Roitfeld
Me
Mother
Dance
Girl
Tried
Like
Make
Did
Little
Little Girl
Then
I love being by myself.
Carrie Donovan
Love
Myself
Being
Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.
Carrie Donovan
Fashion
Entertainment
Christy
Top
Kids
About
New
Know
Naomi
New One
Models
Dying
Afternoon
Whoever
Fascinating
Why
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
Charles Williams
Love
God
Saying
Assumed
Ought
Our
Immediate
Something
Emotional
Generally
Like
Indulgence
Terror
Famous
Meaning
Meaning Of
Means
It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.
Charles Williams
Good
People
Good People
Pleasant
Thoroughly
See
Unusual
Getting
Deserts
It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.
Charles Williams
God
Men
Easier
Willing
Reluctant
Than
Forgive
Forgiven
Often
Fatal
Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.
Charles Williams
Fact
Had
Like
Alter
Does
Got
Did
Wanted
Certainly
Eve
Adam
Adam And Eve
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
Charles Williams
Magnificence
Points
Doctrine
Forgive
Revolves
Forgiven
Modesty
Holy
Whole
Round
Largesse
Two
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
Charles Williams
Day
Leadership
Judge
Church
Made
Hoped
Religious
Seem
Divine
Does
His
Itself
Comments
Officers
Much
Foundation
Thing
The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.
Charles Williams
Prevail
History
Church
Looking
Looking Back
Hell
Back
Promise
Would
About
He
Feel
Most
Done
The History Of
Against
Should
Gates
Hell is indefinite.
Charles Williams
Hell
Indefinite
Hell Is
When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.
Christopher Rouse
Work
Editing
Wonderful
School
Every
Project
High
Would
High School
Directing
Had
Bud
Him
Learn
Editing Room
Editors
Go
Were
Left
Room
Them
Working
Dad
Film
Watch
Every Chance
Chance
Two
I think I approached 'Captain Phillips' as I would any project. I always try to understand the story, characters, and themes as deeply as possible and then work as hard as I can to make those things come to life.
Christopher Rouse
Life
Work
Try
Think
Project
Those
Possible
Characters
Would
Come
Make
Understand
Always
Any
Story
Themes
Then
Hard
Captain
Deeply
Things
My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.
Christopher Rouse
Great
Me
Father
First
Films
Favorite
Would
Classic
Directors
David
Lean
Always
His
Foremost
Lot
Discuss
American
Endlessly
Just
Fan
Story
Watch
I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.
Clifton Daniel
White
White House
President
Corps
Say
Press
Would
Touch
More
House
Truman
Than
Roosevelt
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