Margaret Atwood Quotes

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

Margaret Atwood

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YourselfYouPersonRoomBehave

It's not that anything has changed about me, and, it's a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.

Joanne Froggatt

MeThinkFeelLearnYouSkin

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

Jil Sander

MomentFashionStrongKnowWhyMay

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

Jennifer Saunders

PeopleThinkYouFameImaginePaid

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

Robert Orben

WritingComedyKnowAheadSecret

I'm lazy! For me, fashion has to be easy.

Jeanne Damas

MeFashionEasyLazy

I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

LovePeopleMeWorldNowOver

What if someone created some sort of eyebrow pencil that was revolutionary and that was made specifically to help eyebrows look more realistic?

Michelle Phan

SomeoneHelpLookWhat IfPencil

The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.

Mick Taylor

MoneyComebackKindGroupNeedOut

One letter to bin Laden reveals that al Qaeda was working on chemical and biological weapons in Iran.

Michael T. Flynn

WorkingWeaponsChemicalIranLetter

A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever.

Minna Antrim

KissFeverSignInwardVisible

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.

Jose Carreras

LifeWorkOpportunitySoulManDeep

It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally.

Derek Harold Richard Barton

TimeBarriersSeemOrganicAvailable

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