Cindy Quotes

• The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

  Cindy Sherman

  Promise, Stories, Photographer

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• Not that I believe you can have it all: I believe you can have it all, just not at the same time.

  Cindy Crawford

  Believe, Believe You Can, I Believe

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• I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Photographer, Interest

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• Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

  Cindy Crawford

  Sexy, Husband, Dad

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• I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.

  Cindy Sherman

  Thinking, Political, Dresses

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• The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

  Cindy Sherman

  Pieces, Way, Photographer

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• I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

  Cindy Sherman

  Art, Thinking, Knowing

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• The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

  Cindy Sherman

  Feminist Art, Bullshit, Stuff

  "Studio: Cindy Sherman". Interview with Betsy Berne, www.tate.org.uk. June 1, 2003.

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• I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because I have nothing specific in mind when I'm working. My intentions are neither feminist nor political. I try to put double or multiple meanings into my photos, which might give rise to a greater variety of interpretations.

  Cindy Sherman

  People, Giving, Feminist

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• We're all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don't spend any time, or think they don't, on preparing themselves for the world out there - I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.

  Cindy Sherman

  Thinking, People, World

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• If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

  Cindy Sherman

  Thinking, Challenges, Trying

  "Studio: Cindy Sherman". Interview with Betsy Berne, www.tate.org.uk. June 1, 2003.

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• One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

  Cindy Sherman

  Photography, Art, Photographer

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• [My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

  Cindy Sherman

  Character, Trying

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• When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

  Cindy Crawford

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

  Cindy Crawford

  Age, Faces

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• Having children really changes your priorities.

  Cindy Crawford

  Children, Priorities, Having Children

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• I wasn't the most popular girl in school by any means.

  Cindy Crawford

  Girl, School, Mean

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• I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

  Cindy Crawford

  Cancer, Makeup, Thinking

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• I'm comfortable in my own skin. I know I'm not going to ever be Cindy Crawford or Elle MacPherson.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Skins, My Own, Knows

  "Giada De Laurentiis' slim-cooking secrets". The Fox News Interview, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2012.

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• People like Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and Pamela Anderson have done Playboy, and look at their careers!

  Danielle O'Hara

  Careers, People, Looks

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• Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother. And nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.

  Phil Donahue

  Mother, Tough

  "O'Reilly vs. Donahue in the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2005.

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• This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the slain children and ask that God ease the pain of Littleton's suffering families, ... The students of Columbine High School and children everywhere have a basic right to learn in an environment free of fear and violence. We must redouble our efforts to see that this is a reality.

  John McCain

  Prayer, Children, Pain

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• Ever notice Hulk Hogan ain't got no hair on his chest? The only one who's got hair on their chest on their team is Cindy Lauper.

  Roddy Piper

  Team, Wrestling, Hair

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• My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Mother, Teaching

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• Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

  Chuck Close

  Artist, Thinking, Important

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