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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A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
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After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.
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You made new rules for the people you loved. They weren't subject to the same judgment criteria you reserved for the rest of the world. In some ways you were way easier on them, and in others, much harder.
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Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
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No man is an island - although one’s known a surprising number who own one.
