Handmade Quotes

• Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

  Douglas Coupland

  Birthday, Funny Christmas, Scary

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• Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.

  Taylor Swift

  School, Years, Interesting

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• For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

  Hugh Jackman

  Hands, Shoes, Tailored Suits

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• Salvatore Ferragamo have done some nice handmade suits for me.

  Hugh Jackman

  Nice, Done, Suits

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• I love and admire the American culture and the American dream. I learnt so many things about the American shoe industry and marketing strategies. I caught the secrets of American casual wear, that is elegant and wearable, retro and modern, and mixed it with an Italian touch, luxurious and handmade.

  Diego Della Valle

  Dream, Italian, Shoes

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• I seriously love to cook ... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid, I used to help her make handmade pasta, cavatelli and ravioli. It was one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of making whatever is in the fridge into something.

  Bradley Cooper

  Kids, Grandmother, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat and I built a boat.

  Will Ferrell

  World, Boat, Sail

  "Megamind Interview, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, David Cross & Director Tom McGrath". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 24, 2010.

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• My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

  Amy Sedaris

  Stories, Fleas, Favorites Things

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• That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.

  Aimee Bender

  Burgers, Littles, Mark

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• When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

  Amanda Palmer

  Stupid, Artist, Magic

  "The Art of Asking". Book by Amanda Palmer, blog.amandapalmer.net. November 11, 2014.

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• You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.

  Randy Alcorn

  Character, Purpose, Stories

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• My New Year's style resolution is to buy and wear more clothing that is handmade by artisans or eco-friendly.

  Lauren Bush

  New Year, Years, Style

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• We're one of the last handmade art forms. There's no fast way to make plays. It takes just as long and is just as hard as it was a thousand years ago.

  Steven Dietz

  Art, Years, Play

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• And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child the gift is really self, and they want so much for their selves to be acceptable, to be loved.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Home, School

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• I really like the sound of analog things where clearly there's something being touched. You can sense that something is handmade. So much with digital, there's a disconnect.

  Andrew Bird

  Sound, Digital, Analog

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I get such lovely gifts from fans... amazing pictures, handmade jewellery. I'm very lucky!

  Leona Lewis

  Lovely, Fans, Lucky

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.

  Dileep Rao

  Movie, Cutting, Thinking

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• Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and critical prerogatives of older, slower literature and handmade visual art.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Photography, Art, Memories

  "Looking Back" by Peter Schjeldahl, www.newyorker.com. March 21, 2005.

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• Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Eye, Design, Stories

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• The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.

  Milton Glaser

  Jobs, Cutting, Color

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• I remember attending Toronto Comicon shortly after the release of Captain Marvel and seeing a five-year-old girl who'd come in a handmade Captain Marvel outfit with her hair moussed up - and I totally got the need for this book, for this hero. Someone who looks like her, and acts like her. So, in a way, Captain Marvel helped pave the road to the expanded role of female leads.

  Axel Alonso

  Girl, Book, Hero

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• There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.

  Hugh Hardy

  Creative Juices, Mold, Pieces

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• I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat. And I built a boat. I had a boat built for me, I mean, and my second day out to sea I realized that (a) I'm not a sailor, and (b) I have no knowledge of basic navigation.

  Will Ferrell

  Mean, Sea, World

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• These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!

  Oprah Winfrey

  California, Giving, Style

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