Marilyn Minter Quotes

I sort of feel like if you're slightly marginalized, you're hungrier, and you can take more risks and be more playful.

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• I have learned to be patient.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • I Have Learned
  • Be Patient

• I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • High
  • Girl

• If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Bad
  • You
  • Place

• Oh, yeah, I've seen 'Seinfeld' 1,000 times.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Times
  • Seen
  • Oh

• One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Done
  • She
  • Bad

• When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Great
  • Trying
  • History

• Music is a language.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Language

• Coffee is my water now.

  

  Becky G
  • Water
  • Coffee
  • Now

• I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Real
  • School
  • Myself

• There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Nature
  • Think
  • You

• The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Light
  • Movies
  • Green

• Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Christian
  • India
  • Heritage

• When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• I like action movies! Action movies are awesome.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Awesome

• Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • You
  • Light

• I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Over

• I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Painting
  • Color

• My dogs are crazy. They're always getting into some kind of trouble... but then again, they're my most loyal friends.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Friends
  • Kind
  • Crazy

• Older men in my family - back to my grandpa - were basically completely bald.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Men
  • Family
  • Grandpa

• If I run into someone on the street, that's one thing. But answering mail for a living? I like a job where you can play and act kind of goofy and have some fun.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Job
  • Play
  • Living

• My life was changed in one breath from God.

  

  LaDonna Adrian Gaines
  • Life
  • God

• Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You keep your craft honed, you acquire the discipline to finish things. You turn into a self-taskmaster.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Discipline

• I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

  

  John Sexton
  • Believe
  • Success

• I sort of feel like if you're slightly marginalized, you're hungrier, and you can take more risks and be more playful.

  

  Marilyn Minter