"The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]"
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"But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908."
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"When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess."
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"I'm 47, I have gray hair, and yet people still come up to me on the street who are in their twenties, who weren't even born when 'Singles' was made... well, they were pretty tiny, anyway... and they say, 'Oh, I love that movie.' And I always say, 'How OLD are you?'"
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"Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you."
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"My hair is always at its best in New York. I don't know what's in the water. It could be mousse."
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"I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me."
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"Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him."
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"I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look."
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"Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up..."
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"When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different."
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"I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't."
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"The best anti-aging product is a great, natural-looking hair color, especially when youre graying."
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"Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears."
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"One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding."
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"The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound, Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam, Our arms are waving, our lips are apart."
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"That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair."
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"You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts."
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"Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair."
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"As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair."
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