Lord Buckley
Comedian, Performer
"Your wig steers the gig."
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Wigs
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread."
Dolly Parton
Singer, Songwriter, Actress
"I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way."
Cesar Romero
Actor
"They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache."
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs."
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"If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs."
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"When I was Elvira, it was probably the phase of my hair getting too high. I thought that if really high hair was good, then really higher hair was even better. So I just started having my hair get higher and higher. In some of the pictures, we had to cut off the picture because it was like Marge Simpson. So that was embarrassing. The wig phase."
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"The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else."
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"Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they think I'm not wearing a wig when I am wearing a wig."
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"I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit."
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"lots of women buy just as many wigs and makeup things as I do ... They just don't wear them all at the same time."
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"If you wear a wig, everybody notices. But if you then dye the wig, people notice the dye."
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"I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I'm in public, at Dollywood. People say, 'How many wigs do you have?' And I say, 'Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.'"
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"When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'"
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"persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy"
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"I was changing my outfits, my looks, my wig, sometimes several times a day. That's when I know my soul is restless."
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