"I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs."

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Source : Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

Elsie de Wolfe

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“A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.”
“When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy.”
“I think at all social networks, be it Facebook or Twitter or whatever it is, there's an ecosystem that exist there. But there's also an ego system that exists there.”
“I loved playing Sasha. You don't have this on every job, or every show or movie, but every day was really an adventure, character wise, for what I got to do at that age.”
“People don't care what men wear or how they look. Unfortunately for women, the music industry is very visual and objectifying. The objectification of our bodies and using our bodies to sell things needs to change. A lot of this marketing stuff comes from men, so we definitely need more women behind the scenes.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“When you read magazines and you see everybody having fun, you think, â€˜okay, thatâ€™s where I want to be.â€™ But once you get in it and you achieve the success that you want, it seems like thatâ€™s where the player hating starts. You know thatâ€™s where everybodyâ€™s like, â€˜Well itâ€™s not all that”
“For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy. Within that alternate universe, the characters do have quite a bit of free will. I know it's happening in my mind and my mind alone, but they seem to have their own ability to shape their destinies. So I'm not shooting for anything. If the characters are vulnerable it's simply because they're very human.”
“Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.”

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