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"This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family."
"Do some yoga. I never feel more beautiful than after I've really spent some time breathing."
"A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures."
"I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too."
"I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful."
"Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry."
"I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril."
"You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful."
"I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without."
"Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants."
"It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces ."
"A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art."
"When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality."
"As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not."
"Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker."
"Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life."
"Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men."
"I was with Miles Davisfor a couple of years as his bass player, and it was a beautiful experience. After two years I said to him, "Listen, man, I want to leave your band." He goes, "Why?" I said, "Because I want to develop not just as a bass player, but I want to get more into composition, into producing, and I'm working with Aretha Franklin and Luther Vandross and all these guys, and I want to really see how much I can grow and develop." He actually gave me his blessing."
"The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form."
"Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her."
