Mario Testino Quotes
I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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History's a resource.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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I love New York. Love it.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love.
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God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
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When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.
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I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.
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I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.
