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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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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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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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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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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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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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.
Ford Frick
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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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I'm still very much a kid inside myself.
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I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.
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I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my management and my team. They all keep me in my place. If I didn't have them supporting all the work that I do, I wouldn't be in such a solid place.
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The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.
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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.
