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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
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I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.
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For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.
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When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.
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There's no point whining about missed opportunities.
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The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
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The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really be a picture about something. It's difficult. So often color gets caught up in color, and it becomes merly decorative. Some photographers use it brilliantly to make visual statements combining color and content; otherwise it is empty.
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I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes
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You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending
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I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
