Mario Testino Quotes

When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer, that we played on set all day to relax everyone. I decided to do the same thing for Catherine and William. The contrast of the contemporary informal music playing in the beautiful rooms with so much history caused a lot of laughter.

Mario Testino

• Music
• History
• Mother
• Beautiful
• Laughter
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• Prince

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• As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Religion
  • Feel

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Water
  • Growth
  • Key

• I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Men
  • Progress
  • Said

• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Political
  • Baseball

• I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Love

• The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.

  

  Manika
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Travel

• I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Training
  • New
  • Formal

• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Weapons
  • Favor
  • Bat

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Will
  • Questions
  • Ordinary

• It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Street

• What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Thinking
  • Segregation

• The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Night
  • Nice
  • Day

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• When I opened Chanel in London, they were happy. People would go, 'Oh, I just came in to see it. It's so beautiful.' And you leave with a positive attitude toward the brand. Now, you don't really get that online. You don't go, like, 'Wow.'

  

  Peter Marino
  • People
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • Song
  • Powerful

• People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to have at least a vague idea about the Pharaoh Akhenaten and be able to recognize the face of his beautiful wife, Nefertiti.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Wife

• Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Music
  • Hate

• I think Kurt Cobain and Nirvana represent this giant wave that came crashing in and turned music on its head again, and there's definitely something to be said for that.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Music

• When I had photographed Prince William's mother, I brought along a CD of Dalida, a French singer, that we played on set all day to relax everyone. I decided to do the same thing for Catherine and William. The contrast of the contemporary informal music playing in the beautiful rooms with so much history caused a lot of laughter.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Music
  • History
  • Mother