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" Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost. "

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" I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it. "

" The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other. "

George Herbert Mead

" I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque. "

" Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than all the other ones that I have been reading?' "

" Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love. "

" I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty. "

" Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. "

" I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things you are meant to do. There's no great plan except doing really good scripts, meeting great filmmakers. And I have to have something that I can bring to the role. "

" For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday. "

Monica Bellucci

" The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes. "

" Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style. "

" Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. "

" A woman can slip on a pair of embellished cage heels one night and a pair of streamlined, lightweight sneakers the next day. The beauty of modern luxury is the absence of rules. "

Giuseppe Zanotti

" Beauty without expression is boring. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising. "

" Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. "

" There is beauty and humility in imperfection. "

Guillermo del Toro

" Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty. "

" When it comes to beauty, I feel that hanging with people you love, laughing, and doing silly things gets your spirits up. We are always prettier when we are happier. "

" A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. "

" Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder. "

" If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist! "

Beyonce Knowles

" A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. "

" I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition. "

" I'm not Meryl Streep. My God - she's the greatest actor that ever lived. It's sad that ordinary actors like me are compared to her. "

" There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind. "

Jessica Hagedorn

" Beauty and fashion are not really local anymore. You really have to be a global citizen to know what trends are. Now, it's pretty much the same designers and the same kind of trends, whether I am in New York, Milan, or Mumbai - it's the same. "

Priyanka Chopra

" The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. "