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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I don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.
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I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity.
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At one point in time or another, everyone's an outcast, and you have to deal with those sort of issues in society. Especially for teenage kids, I don't think there's anyone that's really been through childhood and not been an outcast in one way or another.
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Next time I do a play, I want to go out of town. I don't like the idea of opening in New York. I don't have to do theatre, but if you're going to do it, you should do it well. These days, everything has to be up and running in five minutes. As a result, the rehearsal time is missing.
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I was tough at a very young age, where I was just fighting all the time.
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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.
