Antonia Fraser Quotes
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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The writer is all alone.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
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I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.
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Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
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I like NPR's podcasts because I can listen to those on the bus.
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You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.
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I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.
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It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
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I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.
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I'm glad I was never an heiress.
