Joan Collins Quotes

We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.

Joan Collins

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BeautyWomenLiveBeautifulHair

Fake fat, fake colours, fake flavours, fake sweeteners: this is poison.

Jillian Michaels

FakeFatPoisonColours

If I get sued for keeping people safe and getting people in from the cold because they were endangering themselves, then so be it.

Andrew Cuomo

PeopleColdSafeBecauseGetSued

Which other people in this world stop up holes in their sidewalks with cassava, brothers and sisters? Only Indonesia itself, on account of the abundance of its food.

Sukarno

FoodPeopleWorldStopAbundanceUp

My job is to help Virat in the field. He is the captain, and whenever he looks up around, I should be around to complement him and help him as much as I could.

Rohit Sharma

JobHelpLooksCaptainHimUp

Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.'

Mike Nichols

GreatTimeLongYouSecretsKnow

It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

Michelle Huneven

LifePeopleFactsRealityLiterature

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Michael Jordan

PositiveWorkHard WorkGoalsHope

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

Jules Verne

LifePowerCircumstancesOrdinary

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level.

Joyce Maynard

StoryAbilityTellLevelBasicMost

If you want to work in engineering and to have an impact that's global, come work in the aerospace sector.

Dennis Muilenburg

WorkEngineeringImpactYouWant

I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls.

Douglas Kirkland

ChangeLookWantWillWayPlastic

People ask if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss. I don't see myself moving back. It's not that I hate the United States. I just always thought it would be a shame not to live in a foreign country.

David Sedaris

LiveMyselfCultureHatePeople

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