Leandra Medine Quotes
Man Repeller is intended to chronicle all the fashion trends that women love and men hate. I started it because I am woman with a deep appreciation for harem pants. And sometimes blaming clothing on a sad love life is easier than blaming oneself!

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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.
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When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.
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I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
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Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.
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I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.
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Man Repeller is intended to chronicle all the fashion trends that women love and men hate. I started it because I am woman with a deep appreciation for harem pants. And sometimes blaming clothing on a sad love life is easier than blaming oneself!