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“You're not on your own. You're doing things with other people. This is very important for me.”

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Carine Roitfeld, born in September 1954, is a renowned fashion editor. She served as the editor-in-chief of Vogue France and has had a profound impact on the fashion industry. more

“Maybe it's good a thing that people see me this way [in the documentary film]. They expect to see me with the high heels, the glamour looks, but now they will see me running through an airport with flat shoes! Also, they'll discover that stylists with "names" are in general nicer, sweeter, have a heart, have great relationships with family and friends, and that's important. It shows that people in fashion aren't just freaks.”

“I'm always anxious when it comes to my kids. This always makes me feel very vulnerable. Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama, you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.”

Thinking Want Feels Sometimes Kids Bits Mom Guilty Vulnerable Anxious Mama

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.”

Thinking Firsts Lost Parent Water Generations Taught First Time Forgotten Holiday New Things Shells New Generation Granddaughter

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“I don't say "oh, I'm a grandmother; I can't wear this anymore." Everything I can't wear I've already given to my daughter.”

I Can Given Daughter Grandmother My Daughter

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“I've been working with Riccardo Tisci from Givenchy.It's been a long collaboration, and I don't think it's going to stop now. It's very important to me. Riccardo is younger than me, so it's great to have someone new teaching you in everything, not just in fashion. I'm teaching him in French style, what a women's style is, but he's teaching me in all of these different styles of music.I love this new world for me. It's refreshing and nourishing to keep learning about new things.”

Thinking World Long Important Different Teaching Fashion Style Collaboration New World New Things Refreshing Different Styles Keep Learning Givenchy

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.”

Trying Firsts Stories Novel Grades Length

Author:Brian Hodge

“A year after I'd graduated college, I went to a weeklong conference intensive in Boston, and that's when things kicked into high gear. My workshop leader was a Harvard professor and editor. At the end of the week we met one-on-one over breakfast, and she said, in essence, "Look, you're ready to turn pro." She gave me a list of literary agents to query once I had something to show them. I came home and wrote my first real novel, and the agent that sold it to Tor Books was on that list.”

“One of my favorite things to do within horror is explore this feeling that a lot of people seem to have from time to time, of there being currents of another reality running beneath, or alongside, what we see and interact with every day.”

People Feelings Reality Seems Running Horror My Favorite Currents Things To Do Favorites Things

Author:Brian Hodge

“My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.”

Firsts Novel Crime Changed Ideals Horse Changed My Life Auctions Wild Horses Crime Novels

Author:Brian Hodge

“On the 17th of May, the Delos put out to sea. I was immediately affected with sea-sickness, which, however, lasted but a short time. I remained on deck constantly, forcing myself to exercise.”

May Sea Exercise Sickness Affected Deck Short Time

Book:Audubon and His Journals

Source: Audubon and His Journals

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