"The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming."
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"Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies."
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"A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman."
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"The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable."
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"My friends think I'm ugly, I gotta masculine face."
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"I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing."
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"There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting."
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"There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly."
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"I'm far from perfect, but I don't think I'm ugly."
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"One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition."
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"Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once."
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"I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway."
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"He is ugly and sad, but he is all love."
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"I’ve never dreamed of becoming a model. As a child I was bullied and insulted as ugly"
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"I don't know if I have any regrets, I have had a pretty successful life. I have learned good, bad, and ugly."
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"It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter."
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"I like it because its ugly"
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"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."
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"In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other."
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"The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way."
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