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My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.


Gianni Versace

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MAUREEN ORTH My dream was always to win a grand slam, and my second dream was to be No. 1.
ANGELIQUE KERBER I always loved fashion. My mother was a fashion designer, so it was always in my blood.
MELANIA TRUMP I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
DONATELLA VERSACE I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH I remember admiring my aunt's - my mom's sister's - fashion, which was very feminine and...
STEPHANIE SIGMAN I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as...
JACQUES IBERT Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
ALFRED SCHNITTKE I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.&#...
ORNETTE COLEMAN I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily b...
DANA CARVEY Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bo...
M.I.A. Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
ALFRED SCHNITTKE I always drew dresses. I remember loving Richard Avedon's early Versace campaigns. I used to pla...
SARAH BURTON I am totally, completely, 100% in love with fashion. I would wear Chanel gowns to the grocery store ...
KSENIA SOLO In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.
GIANNI VERSACE I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.
GIANNI VERSACE Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing ...
GIANNI VERSACE I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.
GIANNI VERSACE That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion...
GIANNI VERSACE I want to see my niece and nephew grow up, to see their children... I get crazy at the idea that a t...
GIANNI VERSACE Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.
GIANNI VERSACE I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
GIANNI VERSACE That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you...
GIANNI VERSACE You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.
GIANNI VERSACE I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.
GIANNI VERSACE It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.
GIANNI VERSACE A lot of devore fabric, see-through. (It) is a kind of collection you can combine in a different way...
GIANNI VERSACE Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.
GIANNI VERSACE (It's) irregular (and) cut in a different way.
GIANNI VERSACE For me, the summer will be pure gray -- mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big...
GIANNI VERSACE My fantasy is to leave options for women -- to make their individuality come out, to try to accompli...
GIANNI VERSACE Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most....
GIANNI VERSACE My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.
GIANNI VERSACE I want to be a designer for my time.
GIANNI VERSACE Comfort is very important to me. I think people live better in big houses and in big clothes.
GIANNI VERSACE Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
GIANNI VERSACE I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.
GIANNI VERSACE I liked women as a shape to dress.
GIANNI VERSACE I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.
GIANNI VERSACE I want always to be positive.
GIANNI VERSACE I never fall down. I always fight.
GIANNI VERSACE I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
GIANNI VERSACE I want to be the joy to people through my work.
GIANNI VERSACE I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
GIANNI VERSACE I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
GIANNI VERSACE For me, the summer will be pure gray - mother-of-pearl gray, very pale gray. To me, this is the big ...
GIANNI VERSACE It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
BEBE REXHA My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'
KATE UPTON Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.
MANOLO BLAHNIK I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miam...
CARMEN BUSQUETS Fashion Week was a fantasy that came true.
CHLOE DAO As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very spe...
PASTOR MALDONADO My first love is film, always. I wanted to be an actor. That was my dream as a young man,
JOE SIMPSON He gave so much of his life to public service, but his family always came first. I'm very proud he w...
BILL STANLEY The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, ...
KENNETH GRAHAME [It] was always my dream to finish here.
ALLAN HOUSTON The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture ...
M.I.A. I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashi...
DAKOTA FANNING I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
RICHARD STRAUSS From very early on, I had always wanted to be a stand-up comedian. It was my passion; it was my goal...
MIKE BINDER My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read ...
ROBERT CORMIER When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, wit...
DAVE BRUBECK I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and worki...
CATHERINE MALANDRINO My dream job has always been to be a ski racer.
MIKAELA SHIFFRIN When we first came to Pascagoula, we saw him quite a lot. He came in here a lot and we always though...
MARY ANDERSON My dream was always, when I was a little girl, to be number one and to win grand slams as the number...
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.
STEPHEN CHOW But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I...
FLORENCE WELCH My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a...
DONATELLA VERSACE Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player...
PHIL KNIGHT I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
VICTORIA BECKHAM It's always been my area. I wanted to be very tender with it, but I've always watched it like it was...
RICK COMEGY He's a very hard horse to ride. He came out a little bit at the end, but as soon as he came out, I t...
JAVIER CASTELLANO I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what i told everybody i was g...
CHESTER BENNINGTON After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
NAOMI CAMPBELL I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trend...
RAINA TELGEMEIER It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's...
DANIEL BARENBOIM My whole life, even as a kid, I would say, 'I want to be on a billboard!' To be on a fashion...
KENDALL JENNER I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form...
CORMAC MCCARTHY I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
ED STOPPARD It was like a dream. It is a dream that came true. I lived the emotions. I closed my eyes twice to r...
CRISTIAN ZORZI I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I w...
CHESTER BENNINGTON A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) My father always told me not to dream, but my dreams created my path to success.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But t...
TINA TURNER It's half Versace and half Dolce & Gabbana.
ANTHONY CALLEA I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I...
GARY SHTEYNGART When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.
MARGUERITE YOUNG This was one time I didn't have to fight to keep my book healthy. It came easily. All those vegetabl...
BARBARA KAFKA My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD The tragedy of a dream is that we lost so many things to make it true. But O God! when it came true ...
TANJIR RASHID SORON MD My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of...
GRANT GUSTIN My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when ...
GASPARD ULLIEL I've always had a 'passion for fashion,' whether it be reading up in fashion magazines or discoverin...
SARA MCCLURE I was never really a career woman, you see. My life always came first. When I got nominated for 'Dia...
CARRIE SNODGRESS I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my ...
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