Elsa Peretti Quotes
I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.
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The world is always in movement.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I have lived a carnal life.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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Facebook's privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I was called the girl that was 'pretty for a big girl,' 'the fat model.'
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I hated modeling. I was so scared. But as soon as I started doing jewelry, I did better as a model.
