Nancy Mitford Quotes
Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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'Blue Valentine' was a really sad movie, but I loved the moments when they're discovering each other for the first time.
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I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.
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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
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Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.
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The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary.
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Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
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I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
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I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.
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So when you Hillary Clinton tried to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work. It really doesn't.
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I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.
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Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What is the proper thing to marry for, I should like to know?
