"It was the Victorians who covered the piano……" — Laurie Graham
"It was the Victorians who covered the piano legs and drew a heavy curtain over what a lady got up to in her boudoir."
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23 Quotes by Laurie Graham
Laurie Graham has 23 quotes on this site.
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Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In…
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The wheels of publishing never slow down.
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Not so very long ago, certainly well into the Thirties, a lady companion was a normal feature of life for…
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Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.
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I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation…
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My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices…
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My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as…
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I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue,…
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Sundown is often the worst time of day for people with dementia. They can become restless and difficult.
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I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.
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The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance…
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In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.
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More Boudoir Quotes
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one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited.…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Oh yes, I dated Orson Welles. We had many encounters on both coasts. I remember the first time he saw me…
— Maila Nurmi
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Everything I say about [writing] battles applies equally well in the boudoir.
— Chris Humphreys
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The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat…
— Siri Hustvedt
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Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not…
— Elliott Erwitt
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A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath.
— John Burnham Schwartz
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It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there…
— Vivienne Westwood
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As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.
— William Manchester
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It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
— Kathleen Winsor
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