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Virginia Postrel Quotes

Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Clothes Unique Human Move Dependent

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

Good Book Bad Rare Unusual Just

Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

Better Learn You Bad Results Teach

It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

Past Problems Dangerous Creating

Boxing's not going to retire me; I'll retire from boxing. That's where most people make mistakes. They normally stay in the game a bit too long.

Mistakes People Me Game Long Boxing

Screenwriting, as a whole, tends to be more objective. In a novel, you can have chapters of stream-of-consciousness writing that add depth to the plot and characters. Film doesn't allow for that by its nature, at least in the long form.

Stephen McFeely

Nature Writing Long You More Plot

You never know what I'm gonna do.

You Know Never Gonna

It is not possible that it is God's will that women are making 77 cents on a dollar.

Women God Will Possible Dollar

I have suggested that Brazilian enterprises invest in Uruguay and Paraguay. These are small economies, so some things can be produced in these countries that will give them greater and more equitable involvement in the Mercosur game.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Small Game Will More Involvement

I've been so lucky in all my jobs. I just, you know, when you hear nightmare stories of other jobs - which I'm sure are true, but I've been lucky and never experienced them.

You Know True Lucky Never Sure

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

Live Children Great Time Mountains

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

Alone Peace Being Alone People Book

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Quality Organization Result Fabric

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