When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn't get the clothes over my hips.
I like to dream, but I like to make things happen.
My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.
I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.
I'm European. I don't like wearing tops. And I don't like tan lines.
Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up.
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. . . . indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.
One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.
If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.