Amy Vanderbilt Quotes
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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Keep your eye on the ball.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.
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I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.
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When it comes to the Internet, people like dealing with people.
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I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
