Quotes About Imperfection

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction.

There were two round photographs of an old man and woman with collapsed mouths and another picture of a man whose eyebrows dashed out of two bushes of hair and clashed in a heap on the bridge of his nose; the rest of his face stuck out like a bare cliff to fall from.

I'm not going to say that I'm perfect. I do have fashion crises.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

How am I different than anyone else? I'm a human being, and I have my faults, too.

If I see a certain faults in people, I know there will be more faults in me as well. I'd rather focus on how I should work on my faults.

I'm here with all my faults and my many fears, but also with the desire to do something important.

I loved seeing a lead female character who isn't perfect and isn't demonized for it.

The perfect fighter has never been born and never will be.

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.

Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered.

I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

I am definitely not the best wife, and no one has nominated me for 'Mother of the Year.'

I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

I struggle just like everybody else struggles. It's always a struggle in life to overcome temptation. I just try and get through it. No one is perfect.

I've heard that many fine artists have to turn their 'finished' paintings to face the wall - otherwise, every time they walk past, they are tempted to pick up a brush and make small adjustments here and there.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term.

I'm a terrible golfer.