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I adore pretty things & witty words.
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.
I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.
I found out that I can have the pretty things and I don't have to spend a million dollars on them.
I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
I like pretty things around. I like it to be prissed up. Then I feel at least something is sane in my life.
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
My parents were artists, so my salvation was to make pretty things - and ultimately delicious things at the same time.
Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
A lot of guys do the pretty things. Dunking, tattoos, earrings, sagging jeans. That's the league now. They have athletic ability, but they don't know the game.
With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.
I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that.
I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.
I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!
Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother's collection, all of which were manufactured by famed Danish silversmith Georg Jensen. To the naked eye, I am either a Jensen loyalist or a grandmother loyalist. Really I am just a Pretty Things loyalist.
Getting 'Millionaire' right was as hard as writing 'Dirty Pretty Things.' Harder. In the pilots, contestants kept wanting to take the money; we had to find ways - the lifelines - of keeping them in the seat, answering the questions. But there is so much snobbery about popular culture. A game show just isn't valued as much as a novel.
My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for the Money' and The Kinks' 'Village Green Preservation Society' - these records that have a story - even if it's not a literal story - because of how they're sequenced and flow. It's like a novel with sound.