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Cecil Beaton

"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."

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Donna Grant

"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."

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Donna Grant

"Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current."

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Donna Grant

"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."

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Donna Grant

"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."

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Donna Grant

"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."

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Donna Grant

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."

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Donna Grant

"Gold all is not that doth golden seem."

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Donna Grant

"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."

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Donna Grant

"The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."

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Donna Grant

"Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods."

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Cecil Beaton
"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."

History

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Cecil Beaton
"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."

Criticism

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Cecil Beaton
"All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left."

Want

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Cecil Beaton
"On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser."

Mystery

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Cecil Beaton
"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."

Being

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Cecil Beaton
"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash."

Death

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Cecil Beaton
"What is elegance? Soap and water!"

Cleanliness

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Cecil Beaton
"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue."

Criticism

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Cecil Beaton
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

Purpose

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Cecil Beaton
"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."

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