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"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."
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"I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?"
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"I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up."
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"I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs."
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"I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it."
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"They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress."
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"Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."
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"You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script."
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"But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!"
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"About six weeks later, she called because she had found a dress. And then she said yes."
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"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"
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"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
Heart
"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
Creativity
"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
Crime
"The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!"
Family
"I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history."
History
"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."
Ethics
"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."
Change
"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
Cinema
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
War
"Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special."
Love
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