Christy Turlington Quotes
I remember doing a shoot for Herb Ritts, hanging off the Eiffel Tower - that wasn't your usual day at the office. It was terrifying, and in the end, you couldn't really tell how high I was because the photographer was scared of heights, so he was quite far away from me.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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When I wrote my first book, I was too scared to find out how people got books published. I was convinced that you needed some sort of magical potion that I didn't have.
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Could Henry Ford produce the Book of Kells? Certainly not. He would quarrel initially with the advisability of such a project and then prove it was impossible.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested.
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I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that were reflective of their times. I quite like that. I quite admire that.
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I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.
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I remember doing a shoot for Herb Ritts, hanging off the Eiffel Tower - that wasn't your usual day at the office. It was terrifying, and in the end, you couldn't really tell how high I was because the photographer was scared of heights, so he was quite far away from me.
