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Barbara Grigas

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DIANE BOYER Use every form of light you can. That will make the room a lot larger.
BARBARA GRIGAS They absolutely don't have to compromise. There will always be a solution.
BARBARA GRIGAS Definitely use mirrors. Do one from the floor to the ceiling if you can.
BARBARA GRIGAS You're better off not having too many tables. If everyone can reach the cocktail table, it's all you...
BARBARA GRIGAS Take drapery all the way up into the ceiling. That's another way to draw the eye up.
BARBARA GRIGAS I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.
KEVIN COSTNER Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, ...
CAROLINA HERRERA Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
J.K. ROWLING Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves.
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PRETTY Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, come forward!
KEN ROSATO I create a look, and I create a style.
EILEEN FORD Plastics are devices that are relatively inexpensive, lightweight and durable. They can be used in v...
RACHEL SEGALMAN Usually, pretty famous people (are selected to sing). I guess we're the pretty famous people.
ANDREW TAGLI She's pretty consistent. She usually gives a pretty good try.
DON WARREN There's a federal election going on. This is smoke and mirrors so they can say they are being tough ...
DONNY PETERSON It's pretty immature to assume that it's going to be inexpensive. The technology is in the developme...
DOUG MCFARLAN A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kin...
OG MANDINO Most people like mirrors; what they do not like, is people, who are mirrors.
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU We usually create profiles based on a pattern of behavior.
JACK HESS I know the Bible pretty well. I'm not one of those guys who can immediately start quoting every ...
JOHN DARNIELLE I'm pretty good around horses and can usually reassure them that I'm there to help them right away.
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BOB BALDWIN Newspapers are the world's mirrors.
JAMES ELLIS Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad...
MUNIA KHAN I would look for IBM to still have decent growth in the fourth quarter. It's usually a pretty good q...
WENDY ABRAMOWITZ Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL You can sit down and do it in an hour. They are great for beginners, but they also are popular for g...
LYNETTE ANDERSON It is Joplin, the wind is usually blowing in Joplin. You can open your window and get a pretty decen...
ADAM GRIFFIN In my opinion we don't necessarily follow the trends because sometimes in stressful times people loo...
ELLEN GORDON If you get very fine, accurate, and inexpensive control over your genome, you can fundamentally chan...
GEORGE M. CHURCH When you hear it, you usually don't have to look. When it's loud off the bat, you know he hit it pre...
RON VILLONE Just that sons and fathers
Are like mirrors and daughters are soft
RICHARD L. RATLIFF I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.
MICHAEL KEATON Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
J. A. KONRATH Our cars are high quality and inexpensive, and the Russian consumer loves just that.
LIANG HENIAN The uniforms are a darker red and is really pretty. It's a very contemporary look.
BILL HARDEN Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their crea...
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NAJIB MIKATI Jews put black over mirrors during times os mourning so they wouldn't think about themselves. But I ...
NANCY WERLIN Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Mums are pretty hardy. They're nice, and look how healthy they are. Yellow is pretty easily seen fro...
HARRY THOMPSON By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy...
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BRIAN ORSER All those kinds of increased costs are usually on the table. If they're substantial enough and creat...
GEORGE CUNNINGHAM The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And mayb...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoo...
S.E. HINTON I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I ...
SUE MONK KIDD Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy t...
KARL LAGERFELD Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.
NEIL GAIMAN This is a political festival. This is a festival that talks about brave things and mirrors them to t...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
EUGENE O'NEILL Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
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SETH ROLLINS Our guards are pretty talented and they can run the floor. So we've turned them loose a little bit m...
BRET WALTER One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how...
PETER SCHIFF We're usually looking for 94% density. That's a pretty high number.
DALE DECKER All the levels are pretty much roughly where they usually are. We would not say they are all low or ...
ANDREW WEST A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.
TAMRA DAVIS A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
BODE MILLER You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
CARLY SIMON It is virtually impossible to go out now in a session and drive round uninterrupted by a whole gaggl...
RON DENNIS Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and o...
ELIZABETH FISHEL Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of...
ELIZABETH FISHEL They are reasonably inexpensive and can give you peace of mind when disposing of old letters, docume...
ELAINE MCLAIN I think that SAs have a lot of the same character traits. They are compatible in many ways just beca...
MALITA WINGE It's pretty much a satellite navigation phone, it's a tracker and you can look where it is on the in...
MARK PASTOR It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensiv...
CHLOE SEVIGNY You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the...
JANET EVANOVICH It's clearly a market mix issue. Expensive homes are not selling as fast as inexpensive homes.
JOHN KAREVOLL It Is Not What You Look At, But What You See! Look Past, The Surface & See Through The Smoke & Mirro...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE Texture is something we forget - it makes outfits look very expensive. You can do a monochromatic ou...
STACY LONDON Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
JEAN COCTEAU I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-...
CARSTEN NICOLAI I loved Barbara and am deeply saddened by her passing. Barbara Bel Geddes will be missed by many, bu...
VICTORIA PRINCIPAL These faces in the mirrors Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There are slow geochemical processes that can create spherical shapes and filamentous forms. The 'ey...
PETER SCHULTZ We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and b...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN Inexpensive is good.
DOUGLAS WILSON Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex.
CHARLAINE HARRIS They're usually pretty free about giving out information.
LINA FAFARD We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
PEARL BAILEY We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us -- not our effects on others.
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DAVE BRISTOW Today was a surprise. We are not that kind of ball club at all. Usually we hit the ball hard on the ...
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JIM MORRISON This looks to be a relatively inexpensive, potentially important intervention that farmers can do; h...
ROBERT BUCHANAN I love to dress up and create a narrative with my look.
HALEY BENNETT The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simulta...
SHAKTI GAWAIN Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, lik...
LEMONY SNICKET You need that nail plate. They are there for a reason ? not just to paint and look pretty.
DR. BRYAN P. BULLARD Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
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BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of a...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact t...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people ...
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