Michael Bergin Quotes
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.
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I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
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These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.
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It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.
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If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
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I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.
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Could I begin life again, knowing what I now know, and had money to invest, I would buy every foot of land on the Island of Manhattan.
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Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
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The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
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When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
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I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.
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The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.
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Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.
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True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
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I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.
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And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model.
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I really don't think we should label models as 'plus' or 'runway.'
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I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.
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What if she figures out you're not very smart?
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If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.
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I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.
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I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.
