"It seems to me,’ said Philippa prosaically, ‘that……" — Dorothy Dunnett
"It seems to me,’ said Philippa prosaically, ‘that on the whole we run more risks with Mr Crawford’s protection than without it."
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Dorothy Dunnett
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29 Quotes by Dorothy Dunnett
Dorothy Dunnett has 29 quotes on this site.
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Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good…
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But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in…
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And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination.…
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Music, the knife without a hilt,
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But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a…
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After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of…
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Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love…
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Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.
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Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.
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[Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should…
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I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.
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The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale…
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I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to…
— Tyra Banks
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It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.
— Carmelo Anthony
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The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes…
— Manny Farber
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You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is…
— Bette Davis
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There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.
— Bette Davis
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There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like…
— Sterling Hayden
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People like Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and Pamela Anderson have done Playboy, and look at their careers!
— Danielle O'Hara
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It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we…
— Nate Robinson
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I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to…
— Berenice Bejo
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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up…
— Ann Coulter
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In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest…
— Alice Walker
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