I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did.

Avedon wouldn't let me put wax between my teeth like I usually did.

I had always broken the rules.

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

I'd like to be the first model who becomes a woman.

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

That's the mistake women make - you shouldn't see your makeup. We don't want to look like we've made an effort.

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.

There are plenty of beautiful girls who don't photograph well.

I discovered myself!

When I went back to modeling, nobody knew how to deal with a 46-year-old model!

I had 30-something years' experience in modeling, which is rare.

We need a new religion.

Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

If the accident of genes has put you in a place where you can be a role model, then be somebody!

Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

Fashion is what youre offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.

Open up your heart and mind to the infinite wonderful experiences there are in life.

I don't talk, I quote. I can't help it. It's better to be quotable than honest.

Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback.

Now I'm the go-to-girl for silent films.

Dont put the key to happiness in someone elses pocket.

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

On 6 October 1973, the Yom Kippur war broke out between a coalition of Arab states and Israel. At 6 A.M. that morning, Kissinger, asleep in the Waldorf, was taken by surprise by the Arab attack - as were the CIA and the rest of the world.

High achievement doesn’t require inborn talent. It requires working your ass off. Period.

Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

The French revolution taught us the rights of man

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

Act because you love to act.