I'm a maniacal perfectionist.


Martha Stewart

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I'm proud to be Martha Stewart's daughter.
ALEXIS STEWART
Martha Stewart's my idol.
BLAKE LIVELY
Who doesn't want to be Martha Stewart?
BLAKE LIVELY
Martha Stewart on Steroids.
MARCIA CROSS
I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH
I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
LAURA PREPON
Where is Martha Stewart going to go?
TAI PARK
I'm a perfectionist.
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA
I never thought I'd get a chance to play Martha Stewart again,
CYBILL SHEPHERD
I'm such a perfectionist.
CANDICE GLOVER
I've always been fascinated by Martha Stewart,
MARK BURNETT
I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG
BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.
KARA SWISHER
The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron,
STEVE MARTIN
I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.
DENNIS BASSO
I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.
RIP TAYLOR
I guess you could say I want to become like Martha Stewart - just a sexier version!
JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD
I have not heard a Martha Stewart album yet. But, you know, it could happen.
TRISHA YEARWOOD
If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart.
CRISTINA SARALEGUI
Martha Stewart has been doing this for a long time. I don't think it's a fad.
COREY OSTMAN
I'm a perfectionist about being on time.
TAMMIN SURSOK
The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it'...
SLOANE CROSLEY
I admire Martha Stewart a lot for the way she has branded herself ... in many different media,
ALIZA SHERMAN
Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist church.
DAVE HICKEY
You might want to read the old clippings about Martha Stewart ,
JAN BARAN
I didn't want to turn into Martha Stewart. I wanted to turn into a more organized, more gracious...
JEN LANCASTER
I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.
EMMA WATSON
I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.
BOBBY FRANKEL
I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON
Martha Stewart stuffed and roasted canaries and found they could no longer sing.
JAY LENO
We are looking into whether Martha Stewart violated the conditions of her release,
CHRIS STANTON
I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.
LUDACRIS
My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.
CHERYL LADD
I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
SAM CLAFLIN
Martha Stewart is being prosecuted not for who she is but what she did.
JAMES COMEY
Martha Stewart Living. The momentum is continuing to build and clearly there's great demand.
ELIZABETH ESTROFF
I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can imp...
SERENA WILLIAMS
You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit ...
JEN LANCASTER
I'm a better cook and more of a perfectionist than my mother.
ALEXIS STEWART
Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams...
JERRY OPPENHEIMER
Martha Stewart was the one who really did show everybody that you can do everything.
TRISHA YEARWOOD
I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.
PAT NIXON
I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.
BRENE BROWN
I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything.
SARAH MCLACHLAN
It's really going to be total Martha Stewart saturation come this fall, ... It would very likely be ...
ED MARTIN
I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
FELICITY JONES
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
ADAM JONES
NBC has to be a bit disappointed with numbers for Martha Stewart. They probably hoped it would do a ...
BILL CARROLL
I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbo...
MAMIE GUMMER
Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very n...
STEVEN GAINES
I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.
EDDIE MONEY
The last thing you needed was a Martha Stewart problem. He doesn't even have a good clothing line or...
MARSHALL WITTMAN
The poor ratings on the TV show equated in my mind to the fact that management of Martha Stewart Liv...
SCOTT ROTHBORT
The audience was not the issue, ... because they did not want to be associated with (Martha Stewart,...
MARTIN WALKER
People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's r...
JAMES CAMERON
I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's ...
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI
Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for ...
CONAN O'BRIEN
I wanted to be Martha Stewart, ... but without the stock scandal. I haven't really followed her stor...
CHRISTINA LEE
I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.
CHRIS BURKE
I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it&#...
CARLENE CARTER
When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I...
COCO LEE
I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is ...
DAVID MORRISSEY
I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH
In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily ...
RACHEL SKLAR
It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get...
NICK JONAS
I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do...
OLLY MURS
I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a p...
MARY PIERCE
I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my a...
TIM DEKAY
During the course of my career, I've been shoulder to shoulder with some impressive, powerful people...
CHARLES KOPPELMAN
Now we can get away from the event-driven stock and the trials and tribulations of Martha Stewart, a...
SCOTT ROTHBORT
I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've l...
TED ALLEN
During the course of my career, I have been
shoulder to shoulder with some impressive, powerfu...
CHARLES KOPPELMAN
We did hear Martha Stewart bought several pounds [of butter] when she was in Aroostook County. She w...
ALICE LINCOLN
My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. ...
ANGELA KINSEY
We e-mailed her (Martha Stewart) and told her she had changed women's lives with entertaining and we...
HELEN DEFRANCE
I don't think there's any company that has the same tools as Martha Stewart Living does, and...
MARTHA STEWART
The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be ...
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER
I admire but don't envy people who have children and also have big, wonderful perfect houses. Ma...
AUDRA MCDONALD
I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.
ED BELFOUR
The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremel...
KATHY IRELAND
[If you're to believe either unflattering film, Martha isn't funny, witty or much of a pleasure to b...
CYBILL SHEPHERD
I'm a big perfectionist! I'm trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Maria...
ARIANA GRANDE
Perfectionist? That's not something I am.
MAC DEMARCO
We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return t...
NADIA GIOSIA
I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm dr...
DAVID O. RUSSELL
At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to ha...
ALEX BERENSON
[Melissa Clark has been researching Stewart for her dissertation as a Ph.D. candidate at the Univers...
MELISSA CLARK
I am thrilled to have been chosen by Martha Stewart as her apprentice and to work with the team at B...
DAWNA STONE
I am a perfectionist.
FERNANDO VARGAS
It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together - so he's making me famous in the Western...
BASSEM YOUSSEF
I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, y...
FRITZ LANG
NBC is working on filling holes instead of making a schedule that can maintain itself over the years...
SARARUTH DELICE
I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection.
NE-YO
My plan is Martha Stewart-like. What it's going to be exactly, I can't tell you. You'd have to watch...
CHAD JOHNSON
A perfectionist? That's part of my job.
PEP GUARDIOLA
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs fo...
JOHN LENNON
Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is mes...
KATHY IRELAND
It seems only to be increasing in popularity, and the major reason is time. The rise and reign of Ma...
CONSTANCE WHITE
I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unf...
CATE BLANCHETT
It became very clear to me that Maxim -- this sounds weird -- it's kind of like Martha Stewart for a...
BARRY PINCUS

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I have done nothing wrong.
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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
MARTHA BECK
Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at hum...
MARTHA BECK
What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but withou...
MARTHA BECK
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread f...
MARTHA BECK
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attract...
MARTHA BECK
I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive th...
MARTHA REEVES
All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. Peopl...
MARTHA BECK
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
MARTHA GELLHORN
Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most ...
MARTHA BECK
It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. W...
MARTHA PLIMPTON
Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd ...
MARTHA BECK
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged fro...
MARTHA BECK
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't...
MARTHA BECK
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one ...
MARTHA BECK
I think I just stick to eating a well-rounded diet. I don't cut out anything; if I crave somethi...
MARTHA HUNT
Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies sho...
MARTHA BECK
My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to...
MARTHA BECK
Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely ...
MARTHA BECK
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live b...
MARTHA GRAHAM
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of ...
MARTHA GRAHAM
I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
MARTHA PLIMPTON
If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found i...
MARTHA MCSALLY
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAM
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.
MARTHA ROBY
A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the ...
MARTHA BECK
Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you ...
MARTHA PLIMPTON
Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.
MARTHA MCSALLY
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from...
MARTHA BECK