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.Alison Lurie
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
Adam Goldberg -
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 -
Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
Ramana Maharshi -
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth -
I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
Yuna -
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 -
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
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 -
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
M. H. Abrams -
Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
Karen Hughes -
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
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I never sing in the shower either.
Barbra Streisand -
Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
Maggie Grace -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
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 -
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Paloma Picasso
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I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
Loudon Wainwright III -
I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
Alan Furst -
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
Mae West -
I think as more women are in positions of power, more people of color are in positions of power, the stories become more inclusive; the casts become more inclusive.
Kerry Washington -
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
Franklin Pierce -
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