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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In view of the situation in Iraq, I was on the phone talking to the company and they are willing to provide in the order of 7-10,000 treatment courses and we are trying to ship them as soon as possible to the ground.
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Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.
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I've never been particularly good at explaining or even understanding what this sort of rage is that is so accessible to me. I'm not an out-of-control person, but I can access in my work very easily a feeling of real fury. Thank goodness I've channeled it into my work, I guess.
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When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.
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What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life.
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Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
