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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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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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.
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There’s an inner thing in every man, Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, And will do so to the end. It was born when time did not exist, And it grew up out of life, It cut down evil’s strangling vines, Like a slashing searing knife.
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We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.
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We'd be happy to have more fair treatment in the media, but I'm not going to find unicorns on my doorstep tomorrow.
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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.
