Lindsey Wixson Quotes
I measure the amount of shows I should do by my hair. If my hair isn't good for campaigns and editorials, then obviously I am not going to look good.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have been struggling with keeping up with demand.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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I'm not a purist - I like films that are narrated and films that aren't, films that are beautiful and films that are clumsy but heartfelt. Mostly, I just like a good story and good characters.
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I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.
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My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.
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I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.
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I measure the amount of shows I should do by my hair. If my hair isn't good for campaigns and editorials, then obviously I am not going to look good.
