Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
Irving Penn -
I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
Edie Campbell -
Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
Earl Weaver -
I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
Daniel Cormier -
I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner -
I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
Kate Dickie
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
Rainbow Rowell -
The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.
Rachel Roy -
I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
Wale -
I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.
Rachel Miner -
I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
Patrick Dempsey -
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
Taylor Caldwell
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
Abraham Verghese -
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens -
If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
My life has been devoted to peacemaking.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.
Sally Kellerman -
We sell in Moda Operandi, which, if you don't know what it is, it's a beautiful luxury site that does pre-trunk shows for designer collections. We got them to change their algorithm online to go up to a size 24.
Christian Siriano
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Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been collected before. Among its many insights, I especially relished the analysis of Truth's illiteracy. Enduring Truths is art history with a wide-ranging concept of history left in. A terrific book, and one we've needed for a long time.
Nell Irvin Painter -
I was always very theatrical. I went to theater school in a conservatory program.
Gabrielle Bernstein -
We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.
Charles Lenox Remond -
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael -
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
Elsie de Wolfe