Jane Austen Quotes

We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.

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• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
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• Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Important
  • Why
  • New

• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Obsessed
  • Proportion
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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.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Feel
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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.

  

  Patrick Ewing
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• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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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.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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• I don't think there is much American music.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
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  • American
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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.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Bad
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Difficult

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
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• I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Myself
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• Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Everything

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
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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.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
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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.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
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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!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Too Much

• I really love laughing.

  

  Maya Rudolph

• The reality is that anti-black racism is a global phenomenon, and it looks different in each context, but if you look at the outcomes, if you listen and look at the experiences, you will see that it's clear, and it's happening across the globe.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Black

• I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

  

  Marina Abramovic
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  • American
  • Hate

• I hate hearing from anyone ever saying, 'Oh, you only make clothes for models. That's so annoying,' because it just never, never is the case. Our top-selling size is probably a 12.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Hate
  • Annoying

• My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

  

  Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Death

• We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.

  

  Jane Austen
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