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“If it is a cocktail party, I think bringing your partner, husband or wife is fine. To a certain extent, when someone throws a party, they expect to have people over. If it's a seated dinner, though, you should check beforehand. Asking to bring your partner is fair. Asking to bring eight friends from college is not. A good hostess will always accommodate extras and stragglers, but she'll never forget who brought them.”
Source : Source: www.oprah.com
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“Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.”
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“People want you to be ordinary. They don't like it when people are different. They don't like it when a man soars over their heads while they stand in the dirt. People hate you when you're special; it reminds them of everything that they aren't”
Source : Robert Crais (2003). “The Last Detective: A Novel”, p.129, Doubleday
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“Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.”
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“Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.”
Source : "'Even if you straighten your hair, you will never be white' - Zuma". Jacob Zuma's controversial speech in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, archive.sowetanlive.co.za. December 27, 2012. 
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“I don't think of my plays as steamy places where people display huge amounts of emotions. The feeling is underneath, which in my experience is where most feeling is. I don't myself spend my life shouting in rooms, and I don't really believe things in which people do spend their time in total hysteria.”
Source : "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.
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“It felt like a dream.”
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“When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat.”
