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Decency Quote by Jean Marsh

“If you are going to cover yourself for warmth and decency, you might as well cover yourself interestingly or well.” quote by Jean Marsh — Download Open image

“If you are going to cover yourself for warmth and decency, you might as well cover yourself interestingly or well.”

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In England, many don't even know the names of politicians.

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It feels fantastic, I never thought I would get anything, I've won awards and things but I never thought I would get an OBE…

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I have friends who live in sweet places in Islington but I have a morbid fear of going back, even though they are very…

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Well, I very rarely watch classical adaptations, because they usually do very good books, and a lot of the things they do... I just…

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I think observers, like me, sometimes know more about a place than the people who have lived there all their lives. People are always…

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What makes French and Italian films wonderful is they make them for themselves; they are not made with us in mind at all.

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People do recognize me now and then.

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I like Bill Blass very much, but I'm not so rich that I can afford to buy his clothes.

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When I'm out shopping, I look at somebody who's buying something or sitting down, and I look at him and think: 'Mmmm,' however old…

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In America, I worked for an artist who drew people in clothes, mainly for Bloomingdale's. I did it part-time when I wasn't working as…

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I think people feel everything was better in the past.

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It was amazing. I had had a stroke and a heart attack but I knew I'd be all right. I think it's because I'm an actress.

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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

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Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws… There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased…

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and…

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“Almost everything you think is sacred, good and decent, is a lie and an all-out assault against truth and decency.”

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I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the…

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Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.

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If I see that something is wrong, I don't care who says it. Whether it's a Republican or Democrat, the left or the right. If they are on the opinion of the right thing, that's what I will talk about. I won't proselytize or make the strong things to influence other people about any particular politics, except the decency of…

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I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless…

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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

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