Marilyn Minter Quotes
We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I love creative people.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said.
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....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.
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'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
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We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.
