Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I have nothing to hide.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
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I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.
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I'm not rushing into my divorce, because I'm not looking to get married tomorrow, so I don't have a deadline. I'm not rushing it. So when it's time, and it's supposed to happen, it will.
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It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.
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People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.
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Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.
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Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
