Jane Austen Quotes
We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.
Quotes to Explore
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.
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I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.
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I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.
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We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.
