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“I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.”

Author:Erykah Badu

“I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.”

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Author:Sarah Brightman

“Don't let the clothes or anyone define you...just be yourself whether in a pair of jeans or a ball gown.”

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Author:Tweet

“There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.”

Comfort Aging Awful Liberation Suspects Powerless Dressings Gowns Bras

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“When... I told my father I wanted to be a writer, he had asked me to consider my unfortunate wife, who would have me about the house all day 'wearing a dressing gown, brewing tea and stumped for words'.”

Wanted Father House Wife Tea Unfortunate Dressings Gowns Brewing

Book:Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life

Source: Murderers and Other Friends: Another Part of Life

“I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine.”

Ifs Shows Might Nice Streets Awareness Fine Mets Balls Denial Gowns

Author:Julie Bowen

“Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.”

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Author:Tony Benn

“Kate Moss. She looks good in anything. She would look good in one of your t-shirts, in her t-shirt, in a man's suit, in a huge gown. She looks amazing naked. She even makes nude look stylish. That, to me, is a style icon. She could put a barrel on and it would be some sort of statement.”

Men Looks Would Be Style Huge Statements Naked Suits Shirts T Shirt Icons Kate Barrels Gowns Moss Stylish Style Icons

Author:Justin Timberlake

“Is that not ridiculous that people thought that Justin Bieber and I were on a vacation together, on a romantic vacation, in the Bahamas, and I just happened to wear a gown as my swimsuit and red lips and he's dressed in a suit in the ocean? Seriously who would walk to the beach like that?”

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Author:Kim Kardashian

“We decided we'd have to do something pretty drastic to make people realise that I wasn't going to parade about in ra-ra skirts for the rest of the century. And I'm not going to parade about in black evening gowns on tour!”

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Author:Clare Grogan

“If you can dress as a stormtrooper and go to a laundromat, or wear a sexy cheese gown in public, you might start to find "normal" social interactions a little less daunting.”

Ifs Littles Might Social Normal Dresses Sexy Interaction Cheese Gowns Social Interaction Stormtroopers Laundromats

Author:Misha Collins

“Hollywood liberals could not be reached for comment on the cost of the inauguration because they were being fitted for gowns and jewelry worth millions of dollars in anticipation of Oscar night.”

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Author:Ann Coulter

“For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!”

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Author:Katherine Jenkins

“The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.”

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Author:L. Todd Rose

“I even like when girls wear printed Minnie Mouse T-shirts with a cool ball gown skirt, or a ripped up pair of jeans - it's all about how you style it.”

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Author:Christian Siriano

“Wearing a corset, a ball gown, heels and a swan hat with wings to fight in the forest gave me a whole new appreciation for everyday clothes, because you really become that alter ego while wearing those costumes in those environments on the set. They just influenced everything you tried to do.”

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Author:Lily Collins

“I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.”

Knows Littles Moments Tradition Why Not Your Mom Extravagant Gowns Reception

Author:Austin Scarlett

“A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.”

Lasts Company News Balls Selling Magazines Last Time Printed Vacuums Cleaners Illustration Sexist Gowns

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art.”

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Author:Mindy Kaling

“I need to be able to raise my hands up to turn the letters. That's probably the only limitation I have when it comes to gowns. I wear tight ones, I wear loose ones, I wear every color, and different fabrics.”

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Author:Vanna White

“Coming from the theatre I have played some fabulous characters where I get to wear gowns and I get to be a princess or someone from the 1920s, or I get to wear showgirl costumes. I'm used to wearing a wardrobe that changes how I feel.”

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Author:Sutton Foster

“I've never been the type of singer that can sing in heels and the gown and all this stuff, because I can't get to where I want to go while I'm in that getup.”

Want I Can Stuff Type Singers Heels Because I Can Gowns

Author:Rene Marie

“When I was young, especially when I was at school, I thought couture was about big gowns, big hats (that is couture as well, of course) - but my couture is about going near the clothes and having a look at the details. I like people to have a shock in a chic way.”

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Author:Riccardo Tisci

“Even when I go shopping, I don't shop as a woman. The only time I shop is when I need something, and I'm in and out in less than 30 minutes, so I have no energy to look at 50 million gowns and styles and make sketches and think about heels. I'm not girly in that way. I'm relying on the stylist to do 99 percent of the work.”

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Author:Viola Davis

“When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that. They wanted to be like those actors and actresses, so the movies informed their behavior. A lot of people started drinking martinis and smoking cigarettes because they felt it was cool.”

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Author:Bette Midler

“I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don't think people want to see the old show all the time.”

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Author:Diana Ross

“I use Jimmy Galanos gowns for real special occasions and things - television, special occasions where I know I'm being filmed. But I never really wear his gowns on stage. My stage gowns are more costumey. There's different levels of things that I wear.I would never wear my stage gowns to a party.”

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Author:Diana Ross

“All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.”

Long Forever Goes On Train Wraps Gowns

Author:Diana Ross

“I feel more comfortable in saris than gowns.”

Feels Comfortable Gowns Sari

Author:Amy Jackson

“I love a beautiful gown on stage, and luckily I've been fortunate to wear some amazing dresses.”

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Author:Leona Lewis

“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.”

“When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown; the reception hall smelled like feet.”

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Author:Sherri Shepherd

“This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.”

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Author:Nina Simone

“I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.”

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Author:Vera Wang

“My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.”

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Author:Vera Wang

“When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.”

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Author:Vera Wang

“Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.”

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Author:Lil Wayne

“Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.”

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Author:Eloisa James

“A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially plaques anyone who lives behind a mask. An elephant in her disquise as a human princess, a scarecrow with painted features, a glittering tiara under which to glow and glide in anonymous glamour. A witch's hat, a wizards stole, a scholars gown, a soldiers dress sartorials. A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I nkow what I know.”

“i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell”

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Book:The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel

Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel

“Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.”

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Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?”

Men Heart Fashion Ease Gowns Satin Prom Night

Author:Dorothy Parker

“You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.”

Hands Seems Water Lovers Dear Midst Hiding Thick Marble Gowns Softness Bathing

Book:Men, Women and Ghosts

Source: Men, Women and Ghosts

“Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.”

Ifs Causes Loses Taste Being In Love Good Taste Gowns Sequins

Book:The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.”

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Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

“It looks as though your shop is doing well," Luka said gazing around, "Could you help me find a gift for a lady friend of mine?" My heart plunged to my grenn satin slippers, and I had to stare down at Azarte for a minute, petting him hard. Naturally Luka had a "lady friend." She was probably nobly born: the daughter of a count or a duke. I imagined her having thick dark hair and clear skin, and was bitterly jealous. "Of course," I stammered after a time. "What would she like? A gown? A sash?" If she came in for a fitting, I decided to "accidentlly" poke her with every pin.”

“She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.”

Girl Left Black Cities Sky Clever Tonight Thread Velvet Sparkle Gowns Clever Girl Left Hanging

Book:The Scions of Shannara

Source: The Scions of Shannara

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