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 don't really trust politicians, and our job is to call them out. It's old-school journalism.
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Mis culpas no irán a otras manos por mi culpa. No quiero otra culpa en mis manos.
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Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .
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I consider myself a Jewish writer - even if my characters frequently are not Jewish - in the same way, I guess, that I consider myself a Jewish man, even though I don't often attend shul.
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EFT is destined to be a top healing tool for the 21st Century.
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I'm glad I was never an heiress.
