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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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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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 first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn't mean I have to shout at people.
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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.
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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.
