John Whitney "Whit" Stillman (Whit Stillman) Quotes
Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not very fastidious in their private life. I'm like that. I love it when people do really nice things around me, but I don't have time to do it for myself. It's very hard for me to even buy a new pair of trousers.

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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
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My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.
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Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not very fastidious in their private life. I'm like that. I love it when people do really nice things around me, but I don't have time to do it for myself. It's very hard for me to even buy a new pair of trousers.