In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasn't my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so it's not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.
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DOROTHY PARKER I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. DOROTHY PARKER Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; DOROTHY PARKER All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were a... DOROTHY PARKER Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men... DOROTHY THOMPSON Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. DOROTHY PARKER There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply... DOROTHY PARKER Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a poi... DOROTHY PARKER I never thought that heav'n would lose its blue And sullen storm-clouds mask the gentle sky; DOROTHY PARKER All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't si... DOROTHY PARKER I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn. DOROTHY PARKER They sicken at the calm that know the storm. DOROTHY PARKER They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. DOROTHY PARKER Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. DOROTHY PARKER The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsa... DOROTHY NEVILL He'd have given me rolling lands, Houses of marble, and billowing farms, Pearls, to trickle ... DOROTHY PARKER Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my ... DOROTHY PARKER By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infi... DOROTHY PARKER Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word DOROTHY PARKER They laid their hands upon my head, They stroked my cheek and brow; And time could heal a hu... DOROTHY PARKER Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. DOROTHY PARKER Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are. DOROTHY PARKER I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back ... DOROTHY PARKER Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world. DOROTHY PARKER The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. DOROTHY DAY I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. DOROTHY PARKER Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown? DOROTHY PARKER Brevity is the soul of lingerie. DOROTHY PARKER How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts... DOROTHY DAY He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summa... DOROTHY UHNAK If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increa... DOROTHY DAY Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the th... DOROTHY PARKER Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or a... DOROTHY DAY I like to have a martini, Two at the very most. After three I'm under the table, After four... DOROTHY PARKER Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host. DOROTHY PARKER Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (B... DOROTHY PARKER