Alice Temperley Quotes

When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around me from our fancy-dress box. I was obsessed with a feather and rabbit-fur collar from the age of three and attempted to make one with my friend, whose father was a gamekeeper.

Alice Temperley

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People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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I think that the idea of wanting to fight for your kids, but also knowing that your wife is probably better at it, is something that rings very true for me.

John Ross Bowie

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All you can do is trust your game and not wait for the opponent to give you the match.

Stan Wawrinka

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I actually have a closet that's all shoes, maybe 700 pairs.

Russell Westbrook

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In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

Lord Hailsham

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Shaming is powerful and useful. I'm living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished.

Jon Ronson

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I am such a huge fan of both of those shows - I've seen every episode of 'Sex in the City' and every episode of 'Girls' at least once, some multiple times.

Jonathan Groff

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Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.

Diane Setterfield

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When you're a full-time mum, you're constantly in that zone and doing breastfeeding and having a lot of boredom, too!

Davinia Taylor

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It's a little challenging as a congressman to keep a low profile, but I try very hard to keep a low profile.

Seth Moulton

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Campaigns bring out the warriors in everybody.

Nicolle Wallace

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A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

Lysander Spooner

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