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“My upringing did influence me to a certain extent. I grew up going to private school, and we'd have these really cute uniforms, but you'd only have so much sway over how you could "customize" them. I would line my blazers, I would dart my skirts, I'd change the buttons, I would do anything I could to make them unique. And when I started designing, I found myself referencing those roots. I love a sort of preppy, gender-bender vibe. I wanted to incorporate the feel of menswear into the looks. That definitely comes from my private school days.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Women read each other at a single glance.”
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“No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.”
Source : Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.163, Random House
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“A Dreamer is a person whose life is in motion.”
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“A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.”
Source : Indira Gandhi (1984). “Indira Gandhiʾs Legacy to the Indian Nation: Economic Development and the Public Sector”
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“But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties.”
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“We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.”
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“My mom gets these new iPhones and stuff and she's like "Leo, can you figure it out?" because she had no idea. So yeah, I'm pretty good with gadgets.”
Source : "Star on the rise – Leo Howard Interview". Interview with Sarah Bradbury, www.tribute.ca. August 5, 2009.