Iskra Lawrence Quotes

I was a 'straight-size' model from 13 to 16, but I was eventually dropped by the agency because my hips were too big.

Iskra Lawrence

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: model
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 11, 1990

Topics

BigBecauseAgencyModelHipsWere

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

Joan Crawford

BeautyAlwaysWantedKnownEvery

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

Joan Jett

WomenAgeRulesYoungFollowOut

I went to play in Brazil when I had just turned 18 and was the world's top junior player. I got to the airport, and no one knew who I was. I couldn't speak any Portuguese, and no one spoke English. Then someone said something that resembled 'tennis,' and I went with that.

John McEnroe

WorldSpeakSomeonePlayAirport

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

John Henrik Clarke

HistoryPeopleViewLookClosing

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

Ami Bera

HealthMedicalGovernmentI AmCare

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

Tom Perez

GoodEnvironmentalYouValuesChoice

You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, 'You know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.'

Master P

MindSayingGenerationDoingYou

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

Mike Mills

YouConnectionUpYourTenThing

The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.

Delphine Arnault

ArtWifeFashionWindowsKnowBeen

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Brendan Behan

LoveWomanManHimHalfwayWho

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

William Makepeace Thackeray

New ThingsNewTwoThingsMakeMost

The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world.

Pierre Nanterme

NatureWorldAlwaysBeenUncertain

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