Tom Ford
Fashion Designer
"Dressing well is a form of good manners."
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Dressing Up
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Blake Lively
Actress
"Dressing up is all about reflecting how I feel."
Matthew West
Singer-Songwriter
"The thing is, dressing up, going to church, dropping a twenty in the offering plate, those things are all well and good, but that doesn't make you a Christian."
Dennis Miller
Comedian
"America was founded by puritans and like it or not the anti-pleasure dogma of those buckled-shoed killjoys still pervades our collective unconscious like an I-max shot of Dennis Franz's naked hairy cop ass. Hence, anything enjoyable is automatically forbidden and bad and in our panic to avoid it at all cost we become obsessed with it... like dressing up in a pink teddy and a pair of ugboots and repeatedly screaming the word 'VERBOTEN!' into a conk shell balanced on the back on a miniature pony... Oh, I see.. That would just be me."
Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob."
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"I am a southern guy who likes dressing up and looking sharp but who lives a busy life of working and traveling, and I need reliable, stylish pieces in my wardrobe that will service multiple occasions."
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"Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art - it's a fun group activity."
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"I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is."
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"I'm really not good at dressing up and being glamorous."
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"One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed."
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"The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense."
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"Dressing up, for me, is looking like an idiot."
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"I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit."
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