Christy Turlington Quotes
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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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.
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
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When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
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I have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.
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I came to Mumbai in 2000 to do a hotel management course. Following this, I worked as a marketing executive with Hotel Sheraton in Muscat for a year. It was in 2004 that I participated in the Gladrags Mr. India contest and bagged the most popular model award. After that, I did few ramp shows and ads.
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.
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It's very special to come back here and work with these folks, ... It's taken a little adjusting to call them by their first names, but I'm getting used to it.
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There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.
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Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.
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I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.
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I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top.
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I've always eaten well and have a balanced diet.
