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Suzy Menkes Quotes

Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: December 24, 1943

Topics

Life Time Man Think Clothes You

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Architecture School Wonder Why Write

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.

Water Food Police Stand Wall Way

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

Work Women Now She Got Get

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Tired World Conquer Army Horse Goal

No matter where you play, you want to be remembered.

You Play Want Matter Remembered

If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.

Business Day Man Risks People Doing

The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.

Crush Order Democrats Handle Dissent

I was so gullible as a kid.

I think after you write something and you're finished with it, there is a sense of loss. That this is a world I can't really re-enter the way that I could when I was working on it. The covers of the book close it to the writer.

World Book Think Loss You Way

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

Austin O'Malley

God Wealth Person Kind He Contempt

I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.

Writing Story Doing You Down Never

I developed a knack for storytelling early on around the kitchen table with my family. I just happen to be a funny guy.

Sebastian Maniscalco

Family Funny Kitchen Early Table

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