Shrimpton Quotes

#1. I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, she's interesting enough to be played accurately. I didn't need to add things.

Karen Gillan

#2. Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street.

Mary Quant

#3. Kate Moss is the best thing since Jean Shrimpton, really.

David Bailey

#4. I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

Jack White

#5. I never liked being photographed. I just happened to be good at it,

Jean Shrimpton

#6. She was a stubborn woman who needed a good spanking, and not of the kinky variety.

Shelly Crane

#7. Skippy Jon Jones picture book

Lauren Blakely

#8. A journey of a thousand miles - is a long frickin' ways."

Tom Ersin

#9. It was great fun becoming famous, but I got tired of it.

Jean Shrimpton

#10. Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it's also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.

Bob Hope

#11. Mr. Nadjafi collected my footage and edited it in ways that cast American troops and American policy in the worst possible light. He rewrote my scripts so that any mention of the war would be described as "the American-led invasion" or "the American-led occupation." The Koran was "the Holy Koran.

Amanda Lindhout

#12. You had no place of your own in the world of adults. It was sink or swim for you - you couldn't help but be strong because your whole world was precarious. I've always felt your underlying fragility. I loved your fragility when you weren't afraid to let it show.

Andre Gorz

#13. My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.

John Key

#14. The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

Edmund Burke

#15. When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.

Rick Perlstein

#16. If I wasn't a model I would have liked to be a gardener. It is still a puzzle to me that I ever became a model. I am an extremely private person and I do not have the temperament for fame. I think I was rather ashamed of this trivial way of earning a living.

Jean Shrimpton