Leslie Jamison Quotes

I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.

There's a great temptation to clean everything up and make everything more perfect. You have to know when to stop and stop doing it, or you might end up with something that sounds metronomic.

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.

I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.

A real diamond is never perfect.

I understand that in the industry, a lot of it isn't real. Which is a difficult thing. Where I come from a lot of people are straightforward and I've had to learn how to not say exactly what I feel. Sometimes it gets frustrating being a person who says what he feels and what his heart is telling him. Every once in a while I fall into letting the industry get the best of me and not just saying exactly what I feel.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one.

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

Nas is someone who can communicate with the streets and can still keep it real in terms of being human, he doesn't try to be this super perfect person, but has respect for his history and for his ancestors and for spirituality. So Nas always displayed that in his music, while at the same time keeping it hard and something that you can relate to.

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

They say real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real.

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

I'm just flowing through, when I see things, I talk about 'em. And it's cool. I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog. Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.

No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it might of sounded better.' He said, 'Well, it might not of. You might have took the spark out of it.' I don't know if he has a point or not. We'll find out.

I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success.

The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.