Irina Shayk Quotes
I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
Quotes to Explore
-
You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
-
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
-
Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
-
I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
-
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
-
I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
-
Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
-
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
-
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
-
Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
-
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
-
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
-
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
-
I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
-
Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
-
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
-
I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.
-
So much must be established at birth . . . in the random choosing of a name.
-
It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.
-
When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
-
I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.
-
I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
