Anthony Doerr Quotes

I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth.

We are perfect in our imperfection.

Our flaws are what make us perfect.

Being perfect is boring. It's the imperfections that make us perfect.

I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

I'm against the ways of the world where people feel like they need to always make things too perfect.

I like a performance, a live performance, so I like little mistakes because that's what makes perfect - the mistakes.

We've been expected to be perfect but we aren't. We're still human.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

I'm not perfect-looking and I don't say the right things, I'm a little different, nothing really special, but I guess I come across as a little more real to people and that comes through on the screen. I know I look young, but with the right make-up I can look older. I definitely feel older.

It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV.

Perfect is boring, human is beautiful

Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.

Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.

I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me

I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change

The most interesting people are never perfect.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

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

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

She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.

I do think imperfection's underrated.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.