Edward St Aubyn Quotes
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
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I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
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I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important to always support new projects.
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When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.
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When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security.
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I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.
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No man is an island - although one’s known a surprising number who own one.
