"When I was young, I did actually model……" — Marina Warner
"When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm."
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17 Quotes by Marina Warner
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
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The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly…
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Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that…
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Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers…
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The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the…
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Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and…
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Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.
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Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.
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I avoid looking in the mirror.
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I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.
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I shop online because I don't like to try things on in front of an alien mirror.
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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also…
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More Bookworm Quotes
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The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help…
— Joyce Brothers
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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm,…
— Theodor Fontane
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A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would…
— Jacqueline Emerson
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Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.
— Zac Efron
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I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid…
— Julianne Moore
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[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.
— Robert D. Richardson
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I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if…
— Colin Mochrie
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
— Idris Elba
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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they…
— Erica Jong
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