Unglamorous Quotes

#1. I surely haven't only dealt with film people. As a lawyer, I also fought against evictions, or worked on leases - the unglamorous side of the business.

Giovanna Cau

#2. I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

Desiree Rogers

#3. I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.

Yasmin Le Bon

#4. Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.

David Rakoff

#6. Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

Virginia Postrel

#7. Real life is often sloppy, tragic, ugly, embarrassing, unglamorous, and not made for TV.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#8. What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision, not mine. I took what they presented - delicate moments - unadorned and unglamorous, yet tender and exquisite.

Ray Metzker

#9. My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard and lonely and decidedly unglamorous. Find like-minded souls and share the joy and the misery.

Pamela Yates

#10. It's about labeling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see a celebration of our femininity and softness.

Geri Halliwell

#11. L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.

Rachel Kushner

#12. Progress can be unglamorous.

Jardine Libaire

#13. When you're a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it's really unglamorous.

Jodie Whittaker

#14. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

Geri Halliwell

#15. Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.

Merrill Brockway

#16. But even in the unglamorous warp of the peephole, she looked like a million sunny days to me.

Devon Monk

#17. People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

Zosia Mamet

#18. If people choose to judge how you look, that's their situation. I didn't feel that it was a problem. I've played all kinds of parts. I've played glamorous, and unglamorous, and all kinds of people. People want to pigeon hole you, I think.

Jacqueline Bisset

#19. Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.

Steve Harvey

#21. A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?

Jerry Pinto

#22. The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere to go to enrich it.

Colin Firth

#23. There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

Edward Tufte

#24. A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.

Shane Leslie

#25. In my mind, I am free.

Stephen Hawking

#26. Little Life Lesson 40: If you are lucky enough to vist the Fantasyland Diner, try to stay as long as possible because their desserts are no calorie, and also: the realy world sucks.

Michele Jaffe

#27. When Jesus said, "I am the way," He meant that to have a true relationship with God, you must practice His way.

Thich Nhat Hanh