Faux Quotes

James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking. Such people are the offal of literature, not because they write about dirty things, but because they do it in a dirty way.

Raymond Chandler

Dirty, Writing, Boys

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One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.

Barbara Holland

Running, Flower, Zucchini

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In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits, wander over to my faux-oak desk, tap the On button on my Macbook Air, acknowledge the muse, and skip into the world where the story flows over the day and into the night.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Night, Air, Discipline

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

Edith Head

Fashion, Heart, Desire

Edith Head, Joe Hyams (1967). “HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS”

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I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.

Joe Jonas

Design, Buzz, Hawks

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I won't wear fur-never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

Bonnie Hunt

Animal, Fur, Legs

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

Cliff Martinez

Bird, Owl, Musician

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I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Book, Want, Normal

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Today's mom watches her every child-rearing step lest she commit some egregious and apocalyptic parenting faux pas that will certainly doom her child to a life spent sleeping under overpasses, or worse, not going to Harvard.

John Rosemond

Mom, Children, Sleep

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From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!

Anna Sui

Tattoo, Butterfly, People

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I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.

Adriana Trigiani

Jewelry

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She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies.

Sara Shepard

Princess, Thinking, Sea

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I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing and directing myself usually deal with the darker side of the human psyche and excruciating social faux pas. I often deal in taboos and the subjects I do as a stand-up are quite challenging. But my film roles have been much more fun and escapist.

Ricky Gervais

Fun, Writing, Challenges

"Ricky Gervais Interview: 'Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb', Corpsing With Ben Stiller And The Best Bits Of His Job". HuffPostUK Intreview, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 4, 2015.

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to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

Florence King

World, Matter, Sin

Florence King (1993). “Southern Ladies & Gentlemen”, p.12, Macmillan

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Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

Linda Evangelista

Fashion, Mean, Should

"This much I know". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2005.

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I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Party, Feet, Costumes

"Benedict Cumberbatch On Alan Turing's Awkwardness And Sherlock's Sex Appeal". Interview with Dave Davies, listen.sdpb.org. January 22, 2015.

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In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake, like in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Faux fur is great because it shows people that faux can look fabulous.

Kristen Johnston

People, Fake, Spy

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The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that there's something going on that we need to tap into - are artifacts, or symptoms of living in this atemporal reality. And it's not any worse than living in the 'time is money' reality that we're leaving.

Douglas Rushkoff

Reality, Leaving, Trying

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STAY HOME FROM SCHOOL FAUX VOMIT: 1 cup of cooked oatmeal 1.2 cup of sour cream (or buttermilk ranch dressing or anything that smells like rancid, sour milk) 2 chopped cheese sticks (for chunkiness) 1 uncooked egg (for authentic slimy texture) 1 can of split pea soup (for putrid green color) 1/4 cup of raisins (to increase gross-osity) Mix ingredients and simmer over low heat for 2 minutes Let mixture cool to warm vomit temperature Use liberally as needed Makes 4 to 5 cups

Rachel Renée Russell

Home, School, Eggs

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I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

John Oliver

Trying, Actors, Authority

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Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

Dennis Prager

Writing, Speak, Inappropriate

"A Letter to Young Voters" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 17, 2012.

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We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

Audrey Niffenegger

Girl, Distance, Reading

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My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.

Kevin O'Leary

Fashion, Shoes, White

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I stopped the blade two inches before it touched Andrea’s neck. Because she was my best friend, and sticking knives into your best friend’s windpipe was generally considered to be a social faux pas.

Ilona Andrews

Knives, Two, My Best Friend

Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.32, Penguin

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Selfridges’ Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers.

Geraldine James

Animal, Japan, Hot

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