Karen Elson Quotes
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.Karen Elson
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
Naomi Campbell -
In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
Fanny Kemble -
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
Warren Spahn -
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.
Mahesh Babu -
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
C. S. Forester
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
Tanit Phoenix -
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde -
Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
Oliver E. Williamson -
Explosions are not comfortable.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
Karl Barth
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow -
I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
Ion Tiriac -
I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
Park Geun-hye -
A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
Jack Schwartz -
I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
Olly Murs -
I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
Ian MacKaye
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I have a lot of vanity.
Jack Nicholson -
I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.
Kellin Quinn -
As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.
LZ Granderson -
Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club -
Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.
Chris Christie -
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Karen Elson