I discovered myself!

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.

How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

I don't think I do that much to prepare for roles in general.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

Plagiarism is basic to all culture.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

I love Catherine Maladrino, Angela Dean and Nicole Miller. Catherine Maladrino designs that beautiful, high-class red carpet stuff. Nicole Miller makes beautiful dresses you can wear every day. And when you just want to go and shut it down, you turn to Angela Dean.

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?

I resent having to prove that I'm not a retard.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery.

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.