William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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I was really excited to get to shave my head - it's something I'd wanted to do for a while and now I had a good excuse. It was nice to shed that level of vanity.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
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I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.
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I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.
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I prefer the smaller acting than big histrionics. It's about reacting and looks, which is often underestimated.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
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What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
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What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
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Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
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There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.
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If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.
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The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.
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All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.
