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.

  

  B. B. King
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• Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  

  Karl Barth
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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.

  

  Inbee Park
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• I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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  • Number
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• Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

  

  Garry Disher
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  • Stock

• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
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• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

  M. H. Abrams
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• Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.

  

  Karen Hughes
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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.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
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• I never sing in the shower either.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Never
  • Sing
  • Shower

• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Dangerous

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Funny
  • Same

• The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.

  

  Niccolò Paganini
  • Guitar
  • Master
  • Mistress

• Estonia is proud of the fact that the country today has a flourishing and happy Jewish life.

  

  Kersti Kaljulaid
  • Life
  • Country
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• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Society
  • Born

• Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

  

  Phylicia Rashad
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• The metal or the stone that's helping me .I'll incorporate them into anything I wear - but I think it's about accessories more than anything, because it's how you accessorize yourself that gives you your own unique style.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Style

• 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.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion