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"Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars."
Imelda Marcos
"Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars."
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"If you dress like a movie star, you have me."
Steven Cojocaru
"If you dress like a movie star, you have me."
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"I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period."
Illeana Douglas
"I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period."
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"If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story."
Colleen Atwood
"If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story."
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"I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'"
Natalie Portman
"I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'"
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"There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her."
Carly Simon
"There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her."
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"I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped."
Tracey Ullman
"I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped."
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"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945."
William Manchester
"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945."
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"Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into."
Portia de Rossi
"Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into."
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"The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress."
Quentin Crisp
"The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress."
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"I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?"
Naomi Campbell
"I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?"
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"I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes."
Anthony Trollope
"I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes."
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"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."
William Manchester
"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."
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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."
Curtis Hanson
"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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"I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up."
Glenn Frey
"I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up."
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"I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me."
Bette Midler
"I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me."
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"Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners."
Loretta Young
"Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners."
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"And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous."
Morgan Freeman
"And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous."
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"However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it."
Christine Keeler
"However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it."
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"The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job."
Carre Otis
"The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job."
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"I dress to kill, but tastefully."
Freddie Mercury
"I dress to kill, but tastefully."
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"Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress."
Sandra Dee
"Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress."
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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!"
William Allen Butler
"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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"Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly."
William Cavendish
"Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly."
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"In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake."
Barbara Steele
"In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake."
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"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."
Roger McGough
"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."
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"I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning."
Donna Karan
"I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning."
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"Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator."
Simon Cowell
"Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator."
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"I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots."
Juliette Lewis
"I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots."
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"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
Liz Smith
"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
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"I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun."
Victoria Abril
"I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun."
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"If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress."
Dennis Rodman
"If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a 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."
William Hazlitt
"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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"I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage."
Sadie Frost
"I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage."
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"When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information."
Kenneth Starr
"When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information."
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"A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives."
Geoffrey Beene
"A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives."
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"I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face."
Grace Kelly
"I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face."
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"There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists."
Nicole Kidman
"There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists."
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"I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress."
Stacey Dash
"I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress."
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"About six weeks later, she called because she had found a dress. And then she said yes."
Maury Povich
"About six weeks later, she called because she had found a dress. And then she said yes."
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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."
Michelle Pfeiffer
"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 want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead."
Laura Kightlinger
"I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead."
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"You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance."
Julie Harris
"You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance."
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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."
Antonia Fraser
"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 dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show."
Paul O'Grady
"I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show."
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"What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there."
Christian Bale
"What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there."
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"I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that's just part of my personality."
Debbie Gibson
"I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that's just part of my personality."
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"They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes."
Anthony Trollope
"They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes."
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"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
Liz Smith
"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."
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"A blond in a red dress can do without introductions - but not without a bodyguard."
Rona Jaffe
"A blond in a red dress can do without introductions - but not without a bodyguard."
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