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• It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Moral, Easy

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• I loved Chiara Mastroianni voice, her talent, her generosity. We rehearsed for two months...She's a workaholic and perfectionist, like Vincent [Paronnaud] and myself.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Two, Voice, Generosity

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.

  Stephen Colbert

  Heart, Perfect, Way

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• What can one say about Michael Jackson? He is one of the world's most acclaimed entertainers, an innovative and exciting songwriter whose dancing seems to defy gravity and has been heralded by the likes of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
  His public is perhaps unaware of the extent of his dedication to his craft. Restless, seldom satisfied, he is a perfectionist who is constantly challenging himself. To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Dedication, Artist

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• I think my dad, when he works with my older son, puts the same kind ofpressure on him that he put on me - that perfectionist pressure. And that can work in two ways: It can make you a perfectionist yourself, or it can eventually break you in the long run.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Running, Dad, Son

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Artist, Perfect

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• But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

  Lionel Shriver

  Stuff, Made

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• Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities.

  Crystal Renn

  Girl, People, Personality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. [So I need] someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means.

  Serena Williams

  Believe, Mean, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal.

  George Saunders

  Trying, Different, Ensemble

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think naturally my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry I became very objective and analytical of myself early on and I find myself doing that in everything. It works good in my work, but sometimes it can be annoying, I imagine, to people in my life.

  Keke Palmer

  Growing Up, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those things. It's just not going to shine through when you're posting a picture.

  Emily Giffin

  Shining, Nervous, Persons

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.

  Wayne White

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

  Martha Stewart

  Evil, Evil Things

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

  Truman Capote

  Thinking, Illness, Form

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a perfectionist. It's a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.

  George Michael

  Pain, Ass, Bigs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Insecure, Way, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.

  Aamir Khan

  Believe, Perfection, Achieve

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• In Hollywood, I think I get a bad rap for being a perfectionist. It's something that's not always welcomed in Hollywood, because you're always pushing people and you're pushing yourself to be the best that you can be.

  Vin Diesel

  Rap, Thinking, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Michael Jackson was a constant perfectionist. He loved watching other people do what they did best and then taking that and adding his own little twist to it. He loved to pull the best from the best and make it his own.

  Siedah Garrett

  People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• You always have your complaints about your own music. I never finish a track because I decided to finish. It's like, I just finish a track because I'm tired of it, you know? So you could be finishing songs forever, I think, if you are quite a perfectionist.

  John Talabot

  Song, Tired, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists.

  Zicheng Hong

  Water, People, Taoism

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• My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all? So my grades weren't great, but I feel like, is there any other way that I could have gotten into NYU? I don't know. I think that it definitely worked in my favor in some ways.

  Mara Wilson

  School, Thinking, Nyu

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle.

  Lee Clow

  Mean, People, Unhappy

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• When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.

  Noma Bar

  Art, Sketchbooks, Process

  Interview with Drew Dernavich, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2008.

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