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

• Mother or Murderer, you havegiven or taken life - Now all is one!

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Taken

• 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

• When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh

• 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

• I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Thinking
  • Fans
  • Special

• Here in South Korea, I'm continuing to learn English in order to boost my prospects. When North Korean defectors try to get a job to stabilize their lives, their lack of English is a handicap. It was the same story while I was living in China. It took an enormous amount of time and enthusiasm to learn Chinese.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Time
  • Job
  • English

• A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Up
  • Waiting

• I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

  

  William Dampier
  • Rain
  • Fields
  • Pleasant

• I saw her do 'Different Drum' and thought, that's what I'm gonna do. I don't look that good in cut-offs, but that's what I'm gonna do.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Looks
  • Cutting
  • Different Drum

• 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