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Attitude determines Altitude.
Winners never quit.
No venture, No gain.
STELLA OLADIRAN Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please...
STELLA OLADIRAN

I love a pocket. I'm about helping women look as good as possible on the least amount of effort....
STELLA MCCARTNEY

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.
STELLA MCCARTNEY Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to...
FRANK STELLA

Some days, I get overwhelmed and a bit breathless... I've probably cried at work, but I'm li...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
STELLA BENSON

I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of t...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

My fragrance is rose and amber, and I was just very specific. A lot of what I've done, at the st...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

My mother loves to remind me that about the age of four, I made a somewhat formal announcement that ...
STELLA YOUNG

We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, w...
STELLA YOUNG

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that ...
STELLA ADLER

My job is to make desirable, luxurious, beautiful clothing and accessories women want to buy. My fir...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't a...
STELLA YOUNG

Obviously, we live in a society where ageing is feared. But, to me, the alternative to getting old i...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

When I first started designing sportswear, I felt that women weren't represented in sports perfo...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

I went to school, I got good marks, I had a very low key after-school job, and I spent a lot of time...
STELLA YOUNG

The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation...
STELLA YOUNG

I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's calle...
STELLA YOUNG

The thing about living with any disability is that you adapt; you do what works for you.
STELLA YOUNG

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
STELLA YOUNG

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I...
STELLA YOUNG

I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 m...
STELLA YOUNG

I think I always dreamt of having a brand that really was represented globally, that had a voice - t...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination thro...
STELLA YOUNG

Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.
STELLA YOUNG

I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey...
STELLA YOUNG

In days gone by, short-statured people were not only labelled as ugly, stupid and freakish, they wer...
STELLA YOUNG

When I say I don't do fur or leather, in my world it's a massive shock, but when it comes in...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

What I really want, what I always really want, is baked potato and grilled cheese. But then I'd ...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible...
STELLA YOUNG

I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gav...
STELLA YOUNG

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
STELLA ADLER While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by ha...
STELLA GIBBONS A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.
FRANK STELLA

We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we ...
STELLA YOUNG I'm not a victim of sexual abuse. I'm not from a broken home. I've never killed anyone before, or wa...
STELLA NOIR

People get all up in arms when I describe myself as a crip because what they hear is the word 'c...
STELLA YOUNG

We fill our lives with all sorts of things that make it easier for us to get along in the world: whe...
STELLA YOUNG

I guess my favourite Disney film was 'Snow White,' which has a really dark moment when the e...
STELLA MCCARTNEY Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.
DIDACUS STELLA

Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And i...
STELLA YOUNG

The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It ...
STELLA YOUNG

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate abou...
STELLA YOUNG

We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and r...
STELLA YOUNG But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or i...
FRANK STELLA

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the hous...
STELLA YOUNG

Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sus...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromus...
STELLA YOUNG

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
STELLA BENSON

Disability informs almost every part of my life. It's as important, if not more so, than my gend...
STELLA YOUNG

When I was seven and watched an episode of 'Beyond 2000' that featured a floating armchair, ...
STELLA YOUNG

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, f...
STELLA YOUNG Something nasty in the woodshed.
STELLA GIBBONS No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the...
FRANK STELLA

Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.
STELLA YOUNG

I'm obsessed with not chucking away food. I'm lucky enough to have a gardener, so we grow sw...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.
STELLA MCCARTNEY I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up t...
FRANK STELLA

The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an em...
STELLA YOUNG

I did always say I wanted to infiltrate from within. That was always my reasoning behind going into ...
STELLA MCCARTNEY Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay cl...
STELLA BLUM Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality,...
FRANK STELLA One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
FRANK STELLA

I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent...
STELLA YOUNG

The way my parents brought me up to see the world is still absolutely key to what I am about. The be...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we ...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists....
STELLA ADLER This year is also shaping up to be a very literate and literary Festival.
STELLA PENCE

Even those among us who are lucky enough to love our jobs would have to admit that at least part of ...
STELLA YOUNG

I don't plan massively in advance.
STELLA MCCARTNEY

The magnitude of discrimination and stigma faced by people with disability in Australia cannot be un...
STELLA YOUNG

There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attit...
STELLA YOUNG Nina knows more about Chinese cooking than all of us combined because she's studied it.
STELLA LEE

Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.
STELLA YOUNG

The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always r...
STELLA YOUNG

It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issue...
STELLA YOUNG Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but...
FRANK STELLA He was telling me I have gotten a free prescription drug card.
STELLA GOHEEN

life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one
STELLA ADLER

Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all...
STELLA YOUNG

I've had people say to me, 'You'll never sell handbags. You don't work with leather,...
STELLA MCCARTNEY Walnuts are a delicacy in China. They are expensive.
STELLA LEE

Family jokes, through rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive
STELLA BENSON

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.
STELLA ADLER Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.
STELLA BLUM

For me, singing is the most natural thing in the world. I've grown up with it and I know I'v...
STELLA MCCARTNEY Beautiful is the man who leaves a legacy that of shared love and life. It is he who transfers meanin...
STELLA PAYTON Bloom where you are planted and sow where you are fed...
STELLA PAYTON The whole point to New Years is not just to have a new year. But that we should be new, better and d...
STELLA PAYTON This Spanish masterpiece was released the first year of our Festival, in 1973, but it has not been s...
STELLA PENCE Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it ...
STELLA PAYTON . . . What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortu...
STELLA GIBBONS [People] come into our office all the time with an idea of what business to start. But I'll ask them...
STELLA TOKAR Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim ...
STELLA BLUM

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to se...
STELLA ADLER

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
STELLA ADLER

The theatre is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.
STELLA ADLER

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best ac...
STELLA ADLER

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing ...
STELLA ADLER

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his...
STELLA ADLER

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We ...
STELLA ADLER

Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.
STELLA ADLER Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless waited their turn to be milked.
STELLA GIBBONS Green fingers was the country name for time, patience and love working together.
STELLA GIBBONS Miller had gone off on some affairs of his own, as he always did when the routine at Bryant’s was ...
STELLA GIBBONS Miller had gone off on some affairs of his own, as he always did when the routine at Bryant’s was ...
STELLA GIBBONS I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
FRANK STELLA

It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and ...
STELLA YOUNG

As a wheelchair user, I am utterly obsessed with toilets, and all my friends know it. A simple invit...
STELLA YOUNG Bookshelves stood against the four walls. They were shapely and well made, but were all second-hand;...
STELLA GIBBONS

My job at the end of the day is to design timeless, desirable, beautiful products. It's not abou...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then th...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

In my own home, where I've been able to create an environment that works for me, I'm hardly ...
STELLA YOUNG

Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.
STELLA YOUNG Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with m...
STELLA ATRIUM

People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live i...
STELLA MCCARTNEY His young man's limbs, sleek in their dark male pride, seemed to disdain the covering offered them b...
STELLA GIBBONS What dreams lie dormant hidden in the womb of your soul, quietly waiting, incubating seeking opportu...
STELLA PAYTON

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.
STELLA MCCARTNEY I find so many opportunities to fall, to falter, and fail when I refuse to surrender to change. Chan...
STELLA PAYTON Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.
FRANK STELLA

I can debate for weeks whether a trouser should sit on the waist, or a centimetre below, or on the h...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

What you wear in the evening is important for women because it's so personal, and it's so co...
STELLA MCCARTNEY ... on the whole I thought I liked having everything very tidy and calm all around me, and not being...
STELLA GIBBONS No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so li...
STELLA ATRIUM

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good....
STELLA ADLER The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
STELLA GIBBONS The word 'special', as it is applied to disability, too often means 'a bit shit'.
STELLA YOUNG Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog...
STELLA MAEVE Allocate your resources wisely for all men have been endowed with abilities that are more than suffi...
STELLA PAYTON

I wanted the collection for Target to reinterpret all the must-haves of Stella McCartney for winter ...
STELLA MCCARTNEY

For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm star...
STELLA YOUNG

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we ac...
STELLA YOUNG Linear’s defeated form
The intangible reality rise.'' ~ Wanderer
STELLA COULSON Turn a major mistake into a master mentor, learn from it.
STELLA PAYTON The dichotomy is delicious. Inside the fantasy genre, I try to present women who need to solve real ...
STELLA ATRIUM No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand an...
FRANK STELLA I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanist...
FRANK STELLA When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or...
FRANK STELLA I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what...
FRANK STELLA You see what you know!
FRANK STELLA I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
FRANK STELLA Why is it that when you don't want to think about something, you can't stop thinking about it?
STELLA LENNON Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or wi'...
STELLA GIBBONS The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
LADY STELLA READING Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
STELLA TERRILL MANN Desire, ask, believe, receive.
STELLA TERRILL MANN Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.
STELLA TERRILL MANN Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.
LADY STELLA READING

You can never please everybody, don't even try.

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