Mary Quant Quotes
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason.
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Sudden and magnificent, the sun's broad golden disc showed itself over the horizon facing them; and the first rays, shooting across the level water-meadows, took the animals full in the eyes and dazzled them. When they were able to look once more, the Vision had vanished, and the air was full of the carol of birds that hailed the dawn.
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Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
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The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
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Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a new play, it's like, 'How the hell do I do this, and do we have the time?' All of these huge questions engage, hopefully, the smartest part of me. And then when you're doing a revival, I went, 'Well, somebody's already solved it.'
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I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?'
