Charis Wilson (Helen Charis Wilson) Quotes

I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more.

Charis Wilson

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• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Uncomfortable

• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Age
  • Pessimistic

• Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Myself

• I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Education

• If she had only been able to touch him, they might perhaps have pooled their secrets and discovered the reason for human confusion. But as that wasn't possible, she went outside, into the garden.

  

  Patrick White
  • She
  • Garden

• The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Passion
  • Deep

• I'm certain about my decision to divorce you. Stop hoping.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Stop
  • Decision
  • Divorce

• The men who are successful have become the most dependent on success to attract love. When this man loses his success, he often fears he will lose love.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Success

• Mormonism, it seems to me, is-objectively-just a little more idiotic than Christianity is. It has to be: because it is Christianity plus some very stupid ideas.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Stupid

• While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

  

  Frank Rich
  • Fear
  • Imagination

• You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does give us a strength, because it's quite hard to get out of, and so it makes us fight more to keep it together. If divorce becomes dead easy - which it sort of has - then we don't have that backup. Because, for everybody, relationships are hard.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Family
  • Together
  • Marriage

• You were cool if you had on a pair of Air Force 1s. It's still a staple for me while on tour.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Cool
  • Air

• My view is instead of political discussions, persuasions, which dominate democracy, in our country we have taken our democracy to the other extreme. There is no debate, sufficient debate. There is court debate.

  

  Jacob Zuma
  • Country
  • Political
  • Taken

• The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

  

  Jeff Kober
  • World
  • Present

• I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Real

• One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Science

• My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Great
  • Music
  • Trying

• That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.

  

  Joan Fontaine
  • Family
  • Friends

• Way to go, New York. One people. One planet. One love.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • People
  • Love
  • Planet

• I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • Looks
  • Broken
  • Elbows

• There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.

  

  Zach Anner
  • World
  • Best
  • Baby

• Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

  

  Adela Florence Nicolson
  • Quality
  • Sin
  • Gods

• I knew I really didn’t look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn’t wait to go back for more.

  

  Charis Wilson
  • Waiting
  • Looks
  • Pleasant