Virginia Postrel Quotes

A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

Jerry Weintraub

GreatLearnKnowStageGetStuff

I think it helped me like myself more, playing Hedwig.

John Cameron Mitchell

MyselfMeThinkMorePlayingLike

It's funny, people don't think of 'Cloverfield' as being restrained because it's a handycam movie, but the only reason it's a handycam movie is because that was supposed to be the reality of the situation.

Matt Reeves

FunnyPeopleThinkRealitySituation

Designers may find the fashion business can shrivel up.

Stanley Marcus

BusinessFashionFindUpMay

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

Mona Singh

StarsTimeFilmPaidWellTV

For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength.

Louis de Broglie

LightWavesNaturalOnlyIdea

Jesus is who saved me. He's what keeps me full and whole.

Miley Cyrus

MeWholeWhoFullHeJesus

Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.

Joss Whedon

LanguageBritishAccentShakespeare

Our investigations were very fruitful. They led to the discovery of a new cell part, the lysosome, which received its name in 1955, and later of yet another organelle, the peroxisome.

Christian de Duve

NameDiscoveryNewFruitfulOurLed

Hermes scarf designers can be found in places from Poland to Japan, not to mention the U.S. post-office sorting room in Waco, Texas. Kermit Oliver, a longtime postal employee, has designed more than a dozen Hermes scarves.

Christina Binkley

TexasPlacesScarfMoreEmployee

I didn't grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me.

Corey Hawkins

MeGrowSeeingGrow UpEmotionalUp

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Chuck Palahniuk

EducationRandomGameFactsBetter

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