"I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual."
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"Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things."
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"They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier."
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"I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old."
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"That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time."
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"You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest."
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"As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror."
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"I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting."
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"I would go to the craft services table and have Oreos or whatever, and a grown woman would come up to me and look at what I was eating and sigh and go, "I remember the days when I could eat like that." And I never knew what to say that, because I was 9."
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"I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye."
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"I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different."
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"I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything."
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"I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say 'Wow she looks healthy.'"
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"Look right through me, look right through me."
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"Ignoring platforms that have gained critical mass is a great way to look slow and out-of-touch. Do not cling to nostalgia. Do not put your principles above the reality of the market. Do not be a snob."
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"Never look on the bright side. The glare is blinding."
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"Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people."
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"One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money."
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"When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful."
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"Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside."
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