Mario Testino Quotes
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
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People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
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It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.
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The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.
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I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
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I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.
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I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.
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If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft.
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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
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The year has 365 days, and I want each and every one of them to be exciting.
