Lesley Lawson (Twiggy) Quotes
My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.Lesley Lawson
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
Jackie DeShannon -
Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
Karen Bender -
I think my numbers speak for themselves.
Jack Youngblood -
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
Malcolm Turnbull -
People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
Campbell Scott
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
Manika -
We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
Octavia Spencer -
I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
Patrick deWitt -
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
D. H. Lawrence -
I have never sought the reason why I write.
Nathalie Sarraute -
My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
Karan Johar
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
Kage Baker -
I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
Rachel Zoe -
I think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.
Felicity Jones -
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A good leader must be fair.
Yao Ming -
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
Sam Walton
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Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.
Afrika Bambaataa -
A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
Jackie Cooper -
There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.
Francis Bacon -
My elder sister used to get the fashion magazines, and I would go through them and find things I liked and buy fabric and copy them. But I hated what I looked like. I mean, I was sooo skinny.
Lesley Lawson