"I'm good at using my face as a canvasâ€¦ I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on to my face. I think I'm really observant, and thinking how a person is put together, seeing them on the street and noticing subtle things about them that make them who they are."

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Source : "Cindy Sherman: Me, myself and I" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

Cindy Sherman

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.”
“To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is real wisdom.”
“At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.”
“I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.”
“If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.”
“In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.”

Source : "Why Government 'Care' Will Never, Ever Work". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. October 26, 2013.
“Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.”
“The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power”

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