Quotes About Standards

I think it's just that the fashion industry can only accept one thing at a time. It's like, 'OK, well, if we're going to add plus, then let's keep it hourglass and white.'

I really don't think we should label models as 'plus' or 'runway.'

From the traditional point of view, I am not handsome.

If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again... I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

I don't judge my performance on how many assists I have or how many points I have.

People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

There is clothing that is improper for a Christian woman.

I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.

I always compare myself to the best.

We compare everything with what is being done in the West. Even the film reviews are written like that. It is sad because we are trying to belittle ourselves.

Don't compare me with anything else but the best.

With a revival, you're compared to somebody else.

The only reason you would hate to be compared to 'Fleabag' is if you were said to be 'not as good as Fleabag'.

We always want to compare someone with someone else, whatever you do there will always be that comparison.

You're only as good as your dumbest competitor.

I have always been very choosy. I am very particular about banners and filmmakers. Everything has to be top-of-the-line; I have never compromised on that.

Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.'

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

I don't surround myself with a lower quality of human.

When you don't have work for a year or two, you lower your standards a bit for survival.

I do have very high customer service standards - I'd send back sushi because it's too fishy.

Indeed, Rusbridger has finessed for the Guardian a certain willing suspension of disbelief and is able to credibly maintain conceits and moral standards to which his own behaviour hardly conforms.