I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

People don't have to do things by half measures because they aren't getting paid for it. In fact, that's all the more reason to throw every ounce of passion you have behind it.

People tend to misinterpret imagination for being willing to do everything, instead of having the capability to put your mind to anything. There is a difference.

Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.

The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

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