Mary Quant Quotes
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
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I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.
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I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment was so bulky that it took up one entire wall of the bedroom. The set, which could send or receive signals, was tuned to KDKA in Pittsburgh, and I remember being completely flabbergasted at the thought of sounds coming from that box.
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I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.
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Of course I remember everything I've ever worn.
