Marilyn Minter Quotes

The fashion world tells me how much they love my work, but they don't hire me very often. Tom Ford did, and he hated it. Naturally, he wanted to Photoshop away the imperfections, which is perfectly understandable. They want their vision.

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Business
  • Leader

• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Project

• Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Fight
  • See
  • Before

• Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nice
  • Should
  • Along

• I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Inevitable
  • Incredible

• When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Sex

• Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Universe

• Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Bad
  • Day

• The danger in a brood mare band is that your mares become antiquated, and you wake up some day and realize that the average age of your band is 15 or 16 and that in another year they won't be producing offspring. I think the ideal average age for a brood mare band is about 10.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Up
  • Age
  • Day

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Always
  • Model
  • Loved

• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Years
  • Rain
  • Plants

• I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Like
  • Better
  • Wine

• I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

  

  Edmund White
  • Home
  • She
  • Friends

• There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon – which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Kill
  • Scares
  • Amazon

• Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Time
  • Shadow
  • Time Flies

• Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Party
  • Tea

• France is a republic, and the rules in theory have been made by everyone rather than imposed by a dictatorship or king or whatever. So it's like, we've got to stick to these rules because we made them.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Rules
  • France
  • Dictatorship

• In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• The fashion world tells me how much they love my work, but they don't hire me very often. Tom Ford did, and he hated it. Naturally, he wanted to Photoshop away the imperfections, which is perfectly understandable. They want their vision.

  

  Marilyn Minter
  • World
  • Work
  • Fashion