"Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card?"

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Source : Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus (2009). “Nanny Returns: A Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

Emma McLaughlin

#Clothes Quotes #Cards Quotes #Credit Quotes

“Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.”

Source : "Vera Drake: Imelda Staunton about Mike Leigh". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. February 9, 2005.
“When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.”
“When you're in the middle of nowhere, when you're on this tiny little island, probably one of ten people ever to step foot on this island, it's taken you a week to get there by boat - and you step near to an albatross nest. It doesn't even look at you as the enemy. You get this great nature moment. Until you realize the albatross, along with the thousands of other winged albatrosses next to it, has constructed its nest of trash.”
“The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”
“Blues purists never cared for me. I don't worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made 'Three O' Clock Blues,' they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I'm trying to satisfy.”
“I don't go to parties and all that. I don't think being seen or being in the right place is going to make me a better actress. I care about my work and try to do what's right in my heart.”
“I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.”
“Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power”

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