Isabella Blow Quotes
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
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I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.
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I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?
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There are two clever tricks men know. One is to make much of nothing. The second is to make nothing of much.
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It's great to fall head over heels in love at a fast pace, and nothing's more romantic, but you need to look after yourself.
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I write about what hoaxers do, but I also want us to think about what believers do. Why do we want to believe a story like James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces?' Why did we want to believe that Lance Armstrong really did all these things that, looking back, seemed impossible?
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I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
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The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
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You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.
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The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.
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When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's been a hard winter on us financially.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
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Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.
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I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
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My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort.
