Elle Macpherson (Eleanor Nancy Gow) Quotes
I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.
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I had no support, no opportunity, no sponsors backing me for most of my career.
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The big thing is to make this country, along with every other country in the world with a few exceptions, quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. And that's what brings me into it.
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Never lower your sight - always look at people at eye-level.
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Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
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I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall. But I don't wear them any more because you don't have to wear heels to be beautiful. I can't even remember the last time I wore heels.
