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Dress Quotes

"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."

"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."

Roger McGough, British Poet

Dress, Guilt, Ideals, Will

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"When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition."

"When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition."

Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Novelist

Dress, Excitement, Mystery

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"You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it."

"You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it."

Rachel McAdams, Canadian Actress

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"I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead."

"I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead."

Laura Kightlinger, American Comedian

Dress, Famous, Want, Will

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"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."

"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."

William Manchester, American Historian

Dress, Lady, Wonder

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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."

"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, American Musician

Dress, Personality, Pretty, Today

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"Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man."

"Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man."

Rip Torn, American Actor

Dress, Man, Public

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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."

"You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script."

Curtis Hanson, American Director

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"Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress."

"Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress."

Sandra Dee, American Actress

Dress, Nothing, Pretty, Walking

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"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."

"Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."

Liz Smith, American Journalist

Dress, Gossip, News, Running

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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."

"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, American Actress

Dress, Hollywood, Sleep, Trying

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"Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress."

"Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress."

Ludwig Bemelmans, Austrian Author

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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."

"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, American Actress

Dress, Pressure

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"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"

"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously."

"I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously."

Mariah Carey, American Musician

Dress, Hair, Style

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"An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up."

"An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up."

George Catlin, American Artist

Dress, First, Winter

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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!"

"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, American Writer

Dress, World, Worth

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"By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master."

"By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master."

William Cavendish, British Civil Servant

Dress, Horses, May, Perfection

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"They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress."

"They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress."

Stefan Kanfer, American Critic

Dress, Evening, Literary

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"About six weeks later, she called because she had found a dress. And then she said yes."

"About six weeks later, she called because she had found a dress. And then she said yes."

Maury Povich, American Celebrity

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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?"

"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?"

Farrah Fawcett, American Actress

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"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."

"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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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."

"Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Dress, Value, Will

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