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Virginia Postrel Quotes

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 14, 1960

Topics

Self Decorating Sense Like Our

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

Actor Director Because How Learned

People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle.

Discipline People Think Resolution

The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.

Art Death Me Fine Art Fine Bore

I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the people of Alabama.

Robert J. Bentley

People Reading Think Grades Country

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

American Movement Indigenous Member

Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are.

Today Children You Now Inspiration

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

Martina Navratilova

Good Sports People Think Sexuality

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

Mary Ann Mobley

Time Me Know Illness Disease Much

I do believe in one true love.

Michelle Dockery

Love True Love Believe True

I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Of course, for a master's program, you have to do a ton of reading. I would get up, usually around 5:30, to do my reading; otherwise, I would fall behind.

Lisa Papademetriou

Children College Writing Reading You

A revival of 'Of Mice and Men' would have seemed out of place in years of Reaganomics, Donald Trump and Michael Milken, a time when Rambo supplied millions of filmgoers with a fantasy that masked what was really going on in their lives.

Time Men Place Donald Trump Fantasy

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

Career Anything Center Both Olympics

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