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“They tend to be skinny; perhaps their performance of appetite suggests comfort with deprivation. Maybe they dupe men into thinking that they, like air plants, don't need nourishment to survive.”
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“Although most people might want it, fame has the lowest odds of success, paired with the highest level of shame for those who fail. If someone changes after years as a banker, or an insurance salesman, we applaud them. But if you switch careers after working in entertainment? You're a failure. I guess the assumption is if anyone could be famous, they would. So, if you stop pursuing it, it must because you couldn't, and not because you just wanted to do something else.”
― You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model
― You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model
“This is an ideal place to work...As long as you’re able to go deaf, blind, and mute from time to time.”
― Jawbone
― Jawbone
“They're all white-they don't understand that I'll be asking for permission for the rest of my life”
― Disappoint Me
― Disappoint Me
“The problem was the liars. They said she could do anything she set her mind to, they told her she should shoot for the moon because if she missed she’d be among the stars, they made movies tricking her into thinking she could achieve heroic things. All lies. Because she was born to answer phones in call centers, to carry bags to customers’ cars, to punch a clock, to measure her life in smoke breaks. To think otherwise was insane.”
― Horrorstör
― Horrorstör
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