A Quote by Daria Werbowy

I can't analyse my appeal. If I did, I'd be in a straitjacket. — © Daria Werbowy
I can't analyse my appeal. If I did, I'd be in a straitjacket.

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Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.
What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?
Most coaches' attention to detail is very good; it's their job. They have to analyse teams, and they have to analyse their own team.
The media do not analyse the game. They analyse the result.
I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.
I feel badly for them, not sorry, but badly, because I think they've been given poor breaks and difficult, not sufficient opportunity to be who they are and sort of put into that straitjacket with the tie, and all of the things that is really built like a straitjacket when you look at it, and tied up in a sort of a way where their purpose had to be slimmed down to just certain things, and function pared down to the linear, and it is very difficult for men.
The fact of the matter is, Obama and the Democrats did a number on Mitt Romney's reputation and his character and his image with outrageous commercials that I thought nobody in their right mind was gonna believe. I know they're gonna appeal to somebody, but they appeal to far more. People may not have believed it specifically, but it did enough damage to make people say, "I don't know. I just don't like this Romney guy. Stick with what we got."
The truth is the President of the United States used the same device that Slobodan Milosevic used in Serbia. When you appeal to homophobia, when you appeal to sexism, when you appeal to racism, that is extraordinarily damaging to the country.
I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.
Unsuccessful headlines were not written without a strong appeal, but it was the wrong appeal for that product and that audience.
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
If I'm going to be completely honest, I did not get the appeal of IFC's 'Portlandia' initially.
I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do.
If L. Frank Baum had written 'Wicked,' I'd have done. It doesn't appeal to me at all and never did.
I don't appeal to everyone well. I appeal to fewer people in a much stronger way. That's what fandom is to me, and what creates fans for everything I make.
It's so much worse to regret something you never did. It's often worth running through your fears to their logical conclusion to help disperse them. One footnote - if life has taught me anything it's to trust the shy people. Popularity means a lot of people like you a bit, you have broad appeal. But who wants broad appeal? Interesting people are always a bit niche. Remember what Steven Patrick Morrissey said: "It takes guts to be gentle and kind.".
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