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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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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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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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.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
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The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
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Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.
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I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.
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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.
