Amy Vanderbilt Quotes
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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A woman can never have enough shoes.
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I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
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I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.
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Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
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The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
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None of the boys were studying for the math test we had today, because none of them cared.
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The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
