"There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person."

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Source : "Tamara Mellon's New York Life" by Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 12, 2010.

Tamara Mellon

#Men Quotes #Careers Quotes #Steps Quotes

“As for myself, I was never against Russia.”
“I suffer from life and from other people. I canâ€™t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful â€” only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”

Source : Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.390, Penguin UK
“For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.”
“Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.”
“Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.”
“Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.”
“Even if you forget thatÂ´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you canÂ´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.”
“If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart...”

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