Lesley Lawson (Twiggy) Quotes
I'd love there to be more larger models, but it's just not going to happen. Designers love to design for slim girls.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.
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The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in Israel. But America is vulnerable with 100,000 troops in Iraq and more than half of that in Afghanistan, and we depend heavily on access to Middle Eastern oil. We're sitting targets for debilitating Iranian retaliation.
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What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?
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When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that's what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there.
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Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out.
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I'd love there to be more larger models, but it's just not going to happen. Designers love to design for slim girls.
