Joan Greenwood Quotes

We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.

Joan Greenwood

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Better

• My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Hair
  • Walking

• Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • You
  • Hair

• Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Men
  • Hair
  • Beer

• I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Man
  • Hair
  • Tall

• It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Hair

• My hair is naturally straight, and I maintain its texture. My weekly indulgence is an egg-white and olive oil hair mask that deep-conditions and adds incredible shine.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Hair
  • Deep
  • Shine

• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Long
  • School
  • Kids

• I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Value
  • Hair
  • Unique

• Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Hair

• Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Hair
  • Treat

• There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Hair

• A hair divides what is false and true.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • True
  • Hair
  • False

• They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Long
  • Beginning
  • Hair

• When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hair
  • Teenager
  • Result

• I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hair
  • Years
  • Short

• My grandma always had two gods: Jesus Christ and the United States of America. I was no different, and neither was anyone else I knew.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Different
  • America
  • Jesus

• In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson urging him to waive regulations to allow for the early sale of winter grade fuel to help with gasoline shortages and gasoline prices.

  

  Bob Ney
  • Help
  • Winter

• I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

  

  Jerry Harrison Talking Heads
  • Band

• If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Success

• When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol. It's all a part of the system. And it's almost like they've sacrificed every single thing to make that perfect. It's like their craft.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Perfect
  • Single
  • Tea

• We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.

  

  Joan Greenwood
  • Hair