Claudia Schiffer Quotes

It's very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.

Claudia Schiffer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: model
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: August 25, 1970

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I grew up in a quiet suburb in South Texas, and loved the in-your-faceness of the East Village. In the early days, when I was still unemployed, I'd lie on a bench in Tompkins Square Park perusing the listings in the 'Village Voice' for a place to live.

Amy Chozick

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Because even very young people are expert readers of pictures, you can convey very complex and subtle messages through pictures that you'd need loads of words to explain. Making a picture book is also a bit like making your own film - and you can make anything you want happen, however impossible!

Mini Grey

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In the early days, I just got lucky. I would audition for everything and just happen to land in something pretty respectable, like 'Freaks and Geeks,' my first job, which was a complete fluke.

Lizzy Caplan

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There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

Lloyd Kaufman

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On a film, you start to get closer and closer with the people you're working with, and it becomes like this circus act or this travelling family.

Johnny Depp

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And my life for the first - you know, when I was in my 20s and 30s, I had my career, and I traveled the world, I lived out of a suitcase. I stayed up until dawn. I did all of those things that were very exciting.

Cheryl Tiegs

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A drop in younger children visiting libraries is of great concern. As children's laureate, I am passionate about the role of libraries, both in schools and in the wider community. They are unique places where children can begin their journey as readers, as well as being creative hubs.

Chris Riddell

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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.

Wole Soyinka

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'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.

Poe Ballantine

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In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.

Niklas Zennstrom

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The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

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Sometimes things happen in life, sometimes they don't. Don't get me wrong: I have no regrets - if I could turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, I wouldn't want to fundamentally change the path my life has taken.

Nicola Sturgeon

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