Joan Smalls Quotes

I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, 'The Artist is Present', in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.

Joan Smalls

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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

J. G. Ballard
- Writing
- Done
- Truth
My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

Jack Davenport
- Good
- School
- Parents
You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

Vincent Bugliosi
- Support
- Always
- Might
With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

Olivier Theyskens
- Thinking
- Question
- Design
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

Gary Wolf
- Long
- Attention
- Human
Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

Malcolm Gladwell
- Stop
- Best
- Always