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"I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget."
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"Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them."

"As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'"

"Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around."

"I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man."

"The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing."

"Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you're the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you've been since the day I met you. Finally, he put "beautiful at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared."Sweet talker, I scoffed. "You didn't know anything about me the first time we met."I knew you were beautiful, he said. "I just hoped for the rest."

"It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment."

"To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved."

"When I got finished, Gershwin paid me the ultimate compliment. He said, 'Boy, even I couldn't do that.'"
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"I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral."

"My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that."

"It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons."

"I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual."

"People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for."
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