Margaret Oliphant Quotes
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
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There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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I like women with style to wear my shoes.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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I would describe my personal style as eclectic.
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I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
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Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
