"I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look."
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"Dogs seem more photogenic than cats. In photos most cats look like sociopaths."
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"Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is."
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"It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view."
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"What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big."
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"Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done."
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"Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk."
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"To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam."
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"When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows."
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"Now as I look around, it's mighty plain to see, This world is such a great and a funny place to be. Oh, the gamblin' man is rich, an' the workin' man is poor, And I ain't got no home in this world anymore."
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"When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids."
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"We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one."
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"I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman."
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"I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look."
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"When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel."
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"I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland."
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"I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you."
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"The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic."
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"Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up."
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"As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that."
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