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• I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.

  Alison Jackson

  Queens, Too Much, Royal

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  The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

  Paris Hilton

  Life, Cute, Fashion

  FaceBook post by Paris Hilton from Sep 14, 2012

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• Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Memories, Powerful, Food

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal”, p.6, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

  Cesar Chavez

  Love, Food, Heart

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• When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teaching, School

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• 'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.

  Diablo Cody

  Sweet, Valleys, Littles

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• If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!

  Joan Collins

  Cheer, Glasses, Musical

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• Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell.

  Paula Deen

  Smell, Cooking, Kitchen

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• That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

  William Gibson

  Favorites Things, Novelty, My Favorite

  Interview with Jesse Hicks, www.theverge.com. January 24, 2012.

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• 'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.

  Tom Hanks

  Degrees, Attention, Faces

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• What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.

  Salma Hayek

  Funeral, Black, Gold

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• We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

  Edith Head

  Depressing, Musical, Today

  Edith Head, Paddy Calistro (1983). “Edith Head's Hollywood”, E P Dutton

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• He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

  Tippi Hedren

  Drama, Directors, Better Person

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• Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Want, Pages

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• I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Believe

  "Why we have too few women leaders". Sheryl Sandberg at TEDWomen 2010, www.ted.com. December 2010.

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• Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hair, Knives, Bridges

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hilarious, Believe, Government

  "Two Years Ago: When Stephen Colbert Mocked Bush — To His Face" by Greg Mitchell, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

  Julian Gough

  Happiness, Hurt, Thinking

  Julian Gough (2001). “Juno and Juliet”

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• It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wall, Fog, Blue

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.250, Penguin

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• When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.

  James Patterson

  Fall, Looks, Life Is

  James Patterson (2008). “Sundays at Tiffany's”, p.49, Random House

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• That swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous forests where there were more birds than tigers and more fruit than thorns, and where, in some dappled depth, man's mind had been born.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Swimming, Dark, Men

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1951). “Speak, Memory: A Memoir”

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• Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.

  Jim Butcher

  Intelligent, Suave, Feels

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.192, Penguin

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• They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other

  Michael Chabon

  Heart, Dark, Listening

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel”, p.380, Random House

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• Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Art, Creativity

  Steve Martin (2007). “Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Unless there is a Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Friday, Easter, Sunday

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