Alison Lurie Quotes
The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
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Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those parts, too. Because playing golf is the easiest thing for me, and that's something I'm so used to; that's why it was always easy.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
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Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.
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I've always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do.
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Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
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The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.
