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"When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write."
"There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves."
"I love men's clothes, but that doesn't make me a weirdo."
"There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on."
"Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more."
"I love clothes but it's a struggle for me to get out of jeans and a baggy jumper."
"Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I've worn black clothes ever since."
"Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'"
"On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies."
"For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends."
"[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters."
"I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again."
"I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes."
"In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that's not too flashy. But onstage, I like 'em as flashy as you can get 'em."
"How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?"
"A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes."
"A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel."
"That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws."
"Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life."
"I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food."
