Mario Testino Quotes
I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but it was intensified by my sister, Elena, who is one year older than me. I used to hang out with her all the time, and whenever I travelled, I used to buy her clothes and style her.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I know nothing about technology.
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If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.
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Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
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I've played a baseball player a few times, but in my career I've been blessed to have played a wide range of characters.
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The problem that we have is that most Americans don't even study American history, let alone Pinochet, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and all these guys.
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I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but it was intensified by my sister, Elena, who is one year older than me. I used to hang out with her all the time, and whenever I travelled, I used to buy her clothes and style her.
