Torrie Wilson (Torrie Anne Wilson) Quotes
When I was dealing with the eating disorder, I wanted to look like the stick-thin models, but then I started reading fitness magazines and seeing these girls with great bodies that weren’t too muscular.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
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It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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There are people who marry themselves. Somebody wanted to marry a tree. People marrying their pets.
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We've done a couple of women's mags, but we tend to talk about feminism and women in the industry, which I feel more comfortable talking about. It's a more valuable discussion than, 'Oh, you're a girl in a band. What hair conditioner do you use?' I use hair conditioner, and I like talking about it. But I don't want that to be the question.
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Sometimes we put so much effort into things we're doing, like dating or wedding planning, that we don't stop to think about whether or not we even want the results of that effort.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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When I was dealing with the eating disorder, I wanted to look like the stick-thin models, but then I started reading fitness magazines and seeing these girls with great bodies that weren’t too muscular.
