Virginia Postrel Quotes

Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

Jillionaire

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I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.

John Corbett

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I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people.

Mia Kirshner

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You're never out of the game until you've lost the final point.

Ana Ivanovic

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Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark.

Stephen Rodrick

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I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

Sophie Kinsella

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The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

Robert Baldwin Ross

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When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining.

Roger Ebert

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I want people to feel good about themselves.

Rob Delaney

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I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

Robyn Davidson

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I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.

Luke Evans

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Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you.

Christina Ricci

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