Lesley Lawson (Twiggy) Quotes
I'm grateful for my lines of wisdom. Of course, there are days when I think: 'Oh my gawd, I look a bit tired.' But I can pull it together if I have to.
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
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The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
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Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.
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One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you're not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to just use my instrument to the best of my ability.
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I always wanted to be in charge of my own career. I like having my own imprint.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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I'm grateful for my lines of wisdom. Of course, there are days when I think: 'Oh my gawd, I look a bit tired.' But I can pull it together if I have to.
