Chantal Joffe Quotes
I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.
Quotes to Explore
-
America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
-
If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
-
I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I'm at home, that time and space is sacred. I do yoga every day.
-
I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
-
What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it.
-
When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.
-
Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
-
Interviewer: You once said you had a drug problem... Lily: Yeah, I still do. It's so hard to find good grass these days.
-
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.
-
Chanel is my ultimate weakness.
-
I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.
-
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
-
I'm very awkward when I have time off. I don't know what to do with myself. It's weird not to work.
-
America. Shoutout to the men in uniform that protect and serve this country. From sea to shining sea. From one white boy, to all nationalities, we've got to stand together, people.
-
We need to demystify - get out and speak to strangers on the street.
-
If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough.
-
I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.
-
During 1989, my mother, who was exceedingly good at finding these free programs - you know, we were on welfare, just trying to get through - but she would find these amazing programs. She sent me to the Soviet Union at the age of 12 to go study in the forest of then-Leningrad with 50 other Soviet kids.
-
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
-
I submitted videos and applications to talent agencies and TV shows; I drove to Vegas and visited agents. I was on 'America's Got Talent'; I played for free at venues in attempts to be 'found' and yet all the experts in the entertainment industry told me that what I did was not marketable and that I had to join a group or do more traditional music.
-
Once you start losing weight and seeing results, you're like, 'I want to see more!'
-
Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.
-
I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.
