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“Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.”

Accepting Trade Profession Vanity Hazards

Book:act one

Source: act one

“We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?”

Knows Ideas Listening Advantage Intelligent Refuse Vanity Listeners Sympathetic

Author:Thomas F. Wilson

“Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.”

Pride Vanity Pampered Vanity And Pride

Book:The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie

“If you have to tell them who you are, you aren't anybody.”

Ifs Who You Are Vanity

Author:Gregory Peck

“For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.”

Firsts Art Hands Age Today Form Choices Lines Effort Poet Fundamentals Structure Rhythm Vanity Developing Characteristics Idiom

Author:James Fenton

“Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.”

People Groups Speech Vulnerable Vanity

Author:David Frum

“If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by vanity only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.”

Ifs Men Kind Mean Courses Quality Appreciate Vanity Great Men

Author:Yousuf Karsh

“They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!”

Want Said Nice Fairs Magazines Vanity They Said Annie Vanity Fair

Author:Shirley Knight

“I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.”

Men Want Mind Stills Fine Degrees Vanity Odd

Author:Shane Black

“I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.”

Literature Conscience Bases Conviction Vanity Firm

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television. It doesn't do you any favours in terms of showing you what you look like and what your emotions are.”

Ifs Looks Lost Term Emotion Television Vanity Favour

Author:Clive Anderson

“If I ever had any vanity, then I definitely lost it by being on television.”

Ifs Lost Television Vanity

Author:Clive Anderson

“I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.”

People Ifs Thinking Body Care Values Lines Gone Crosses Take Care Your Body Vanity Assets Extensions

Author:Peter Coyote

“The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.”

Giving Stories Deals Right Now Pages Fairs Give Me Vanity Exposure Vanity Fair

Author:Jackie DeShannon

“Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.”

Wells Reader Right Now Vanity Phenomenon Blogs

Author:John Doerr

“When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.”

Hard Issues Weight Mindset Quitting Vanity Smoke Worried

Author:Loni Anderson

“I should have more vanity.”

Should Should Have Vanity

Author:Amy Brenneman

“Generosity is the vanity of giving.”

Giving Definitions Vanity Generosity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.”

Men Religion Religious Vanity Power Man

Author:Bob Dylan

“What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.”

Real Vanity Funny Women

Author:Paul Feig

“You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.”

Ifs Knows Looks Long Body Winter Your Body Factors Vanity

Author:Stone Gossard

“Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.”

Believe Book Lessons Presses Vanity Bonfire

Author:Charles James

“Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.”

Sometimes Shows Night Fall Fashion Fairs Exciting Filled International Caught Clubs Vanity Cash Fall Into Place Fashion Show Vanity Fair Night Club

Author:Jeremy Jackson

“For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.”

Character Changed Vanity Acknowledge

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.”

Different Whole Interest Building Aspect Vanity Muscles Building Up

Author:Andrew Lincoln