Models Quotes - Page 10

• When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.

  Adam Savage

  Stars, War, Light

  "Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 08, 2008.

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• Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

  Adam Savage

  Light, Magic, Details

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• Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

  Eric Schmidt

  Believe, Google, Belief

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• The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Hands, Years, Able

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• I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Athlete, Body

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I swear I want to be a food model.

  Amy Sedaris

  Want, Swear

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• It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.

  Will Self

  Sports, Taken, Loss

  "'You may now turn over your papers'". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

  Will Self

  Confused, Eye, Futility Of Life

  "You may now turn over your papers" by Geoff Dyer, Mary Midgley and Will Self, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Most of the models have this thing I call slouchy sexy, not only in the way they dress, but in the way carry themselves. I don't think they would look hot in one of my dresses. They are more into A. Wang. Most of my clothes are nerdy sexy.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Sexy, Thinking, Clothes

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• I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Cute, Skinny, Braces

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

  Ariel Sharon

  Moving, Successful, Mass Destruction

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• My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

  Brooke Shields

  Mother, Looks, Wanted

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• The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

  Andrew Shue

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teenager

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• You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

  Nate Silver

  Choices, Example, Arbitrary

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• We need role models who are going to break the mold.

  Carly Simon

  Inspiration, Female Role Models, Mold

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• I want to be a role model.

  Jessica Simpson

  Role Models, Roles, Want

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• The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

  Arthur Smith

  Expression, Catwalk, Outfits

  "Haute couture for the couch potato" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2002.

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• What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Work Ethic, Ethics

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• It's not that I have compromised or anything, but it's always been important to me to take good care of myself and be a good example. I'm not much a role model in terms of hair care, though.

  Patti Smith

  Hair, Role Models, Important

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• Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of 'House of Cards' at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they've been doing on 'House of Cards' and lots of other shows, we should let them binge.

  Kevin Spacey

  House Of Cards, Netflix, Want

  "Edinburgh TV Fest: Kevin Spacey Talks Day-and-Date Releases, TV Tax Credits" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 23, 2013.

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• I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

  Britney Spears

  Mistake, Inspiration, People

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• I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.

  Alex Steffen

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "Is the Internet the future of community?". The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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• I'm proud to be a railway modeler. It means more to me to be on the cover of Model Railroader than to be on the cover of a music magazine.

  Rod Stewart

  Mean, Magazines, Proud

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• It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.

  Angie Stone

  Mistake, Role Models, Perfect

  Interview with Ra’ed Poetical, www.mtv.co.uk. August 7, 2012.

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• A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

  Oliver Stone

  Beauty, Beautiful, Fusion

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