Eric Partridge Quotes
To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Most men are fragile.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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It's just impossible to ignore the activists in your party. These are the people who stuff the envelopes, and walk the precincts, and make the telephone calls, and do all the so-called grunt work that brings about a successful campaign.
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I fall in love with something and wear it every day until it's destroyed. My most treasured items have a very short shelf life because I love them too much.
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I'm basically always on tour.
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I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that the U.S., a very wealthy nation, permits and even encourages a level of poverty that other wealthy nations would not even consider.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.
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To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.
