Iris Apfel
Related From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles... JONES VERY The simplest conception of the origin and plan of the Iliad must, we think, prove the most correct. ... JONES VERY As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural... JONES VERY We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on wh... JONES VERY Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must b... JONES VERY I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I fel... MARISA BERENSON I was with the very, very, very original, original, original team. I was assistant director, costume... KATHRYN CONTE ETHEL MERMAN STEVEN SEAGAL LIZ PHAIR STEVEN COJOCARU I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare. JOHN CROWLEY But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin... BEATRICE WOOD When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless c... HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT PATTI SMITH MATTHEW PERRY My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university b... IAN HISLOP DONALD TRUMP I was very excited when I saw those marks, ... I thought I skated well and was happy with my perform... ALISSA CZISNY I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hi... JOHN CLEESE She was my anchor bowler, she hung in there tough. I was very impressed with her, I'm very proud of ... ED HOLSOPPLE NATALIE BABBITT ANDREA BOCELLI My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father. DOLORES HUERTA INDIRA GANDHI I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated... NATALIA VODIANOVA I was very, very nervous and then I just thought nobody can see who you are, so you can be a goof. ANDREA BRANDT WARWICK DAVIS It was a tremendous game. I thought you had two really, really good teams out there who played very ... JOE RUX EVA GREEN I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois. CARLA BRUNI JAN DE BONT ROBERTO BENIGNI I'm very happy with the players? They had the right mentality and I'm very happy overall. It was a v... HERNAN MEDFORD BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Brighton played great. They're tough. I thought their pressure was very effective. They're very athl... DEB BENNETT I had been playing with Glen since I was a kid. I remember at 9 or 10 years old wanting to be him so... GARRETT REYNOLDS My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU ... BLAKE BAILEY I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul... RICK JAMES ANNE ENRIGHT It's also very chic to put outdoor furniture inside. TERRI JORDAN HALSEY J.R. WARD JOAN LINGARD I thought we had a very good case. He was a healthy man who got injured that night and everything de... JACQUELINE COLAITIS I remember him as a very special young man. He was very positive and he was a young man who was a jo... EVELYN FOX ALLAN GURGANUS I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very... CHARLES KIMBROUGH I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv... GAIL SIMMONS My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. Sh... ALEXANDER CHEE My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a... MARTIN DONOVAN PAULA DANZIGER I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much. DAN FOGELMAN FRANCOIS NARS I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, an... TERESA HEINZ We played very well. It was close early, but we pulled away down the stretch. We had very good balan... GARY SHARPE ROBERTO BENIGNI MAXINE KUMIN I have to say I was very pleased with the way we played. Everyone played extremely hard, and they we... CATHY ALEXANDER ANTHONY QUINN INGMAR BERGMAN The team owner, Frank Rogers, is in shock, very surprised and stunned, as are all of us. He was ther... JAMES MALONE We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who... BOB LILLY Western wear is at its peak. I mix the traditional type of Western wear with what I call 'shabby chi... BOBBI FARIA It was very, very small and extremely primitive. LAUREN MACK ADAM CAROLLA I was very focused, very motivated and I had good tactics, FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE CAROL BURNETT My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous m... BRIAN COX I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's hou... ALAN BRADLEY TONI MORRISON I thought it was fantastic, very dramatic, very sexy. RACHEL WEISZ I was very pleased with our performance tonight. I thought we were very sharp and created an awful l... MARK KRIKORIAN GLORIA ESTEFAN The very first time I ever heard anything of mine on the radio, I was in New Jersey, and I was in my... FRANKIE VALLI It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky. YAHOO SERIOUS DELTA GOODREM My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I ... HARRIET WALTER I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse, and I kne... LYDIA LEONARD I'm very, very pleased. I thought our guys had great intensity and played with a lot of heart. BYRON SAMUELS Samson was a total winner. He was very masculine, very aloof. Particularly girls admired him. In fac... ALEX EWING I believe I was extremely greedy, and that I lost my moral compass, and I've done terrible things th... ANDREW FASTOW My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening. ZOE WANAMAKER Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of Lo... PATSY KENSIT SHAWN AMOS I was 23, and he was 86. I saw a very sick man. I just wanted to just talk with him. There was no ph... ANNA NICOLE SMITH I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afrai... PATRICK STEWART I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, ... ANEURIN BARNARD NEIL GAIMAN This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him ... VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES I was very happy, it was a very good game. I congratulate Argentina, who showed what a good team the... ZLATKO KRANJCAR I was with one of my girlfriends, and one of her friends is (Voigt's) goddaughter, and I had no idea... THOMAS MCDANIEL We didn't want to complicate Friday with this announcement. This was a very difficult decision. It w... BOB CASTELLINI I thought it was very, very nice. It was a lot of effort, I'm sure. DIANNE JONES JIM DALE I thought Mark Wilson did very well tonight. He worked very hard in midfield and it's nice to get th... COLIN CLARKE I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother... KATE BECKINSALE I was very enthusiastic about that. The Meier building was maybe not such a great place to show art.... HENRI LOYRETTE There was very big pressure for me to be very thin, because I was very tall. I was so lonely for my ... KARI ANDERSON CARLOS FUENTES
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KENNETH APFEL I would hate to see a future U.S. Social Security commissioner urging American older workers to just... KENNETH APFEL It's a good financial planning tool, ... We're hoping it will help people understand what Social Sec... KENNETH APFEL IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writ... IRIS JOHANSEN I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' wr... IRIS JOHANSEN The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound... IRIS JOHANSEN I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader. IRIS JOHANSEN After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy...... IRIS JOHANSEN I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most peop... IRIS DEMENT If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music prov... IRIS DEMENT I've always written about things that cause me to feel something. IRIS DEMENT My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! IRIS DEMENT Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come rea... IRIS DEMENT Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had. IRIS DEMENT Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in... IRIS DEMENT I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result o... IRIS DEMENT Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up w... IRIS DEMENT Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to... IRIS DEMENT I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and other... IRIS DEMENT I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else. IRIS DEMENT Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel tru... IRIS DEMENT And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long. IRIS DEMENT There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most ... IRIS CHANG Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class d... IRIS CHANG Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces. IRIS CHANG It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history. IRIS CHANG Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe. IRIS CHANG Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else... IRIS CHANG The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments o... IRIS CHANG If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an eco... IRIS CHANG It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out... IRIS CHANG For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's... IRIS CHANG Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerou... IRIS CHANG We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also t... IRIS CHANG I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent ... IRIS CHANG After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau... IRIS CHANG It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more a... IRIS CHANG When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. ... IRIS CHANG Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in ... IRIS CHANG I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. IRIS CHANG I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself,... IRIS CHANG There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engag... IRIS CHANG They probably do have an Asian Barbie. IRIS CHANG I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills. IRIS CHANG Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an... IRIS CHANG Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien. IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off chil... IRIS CHANG There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people star... IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion. IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH The poppy opes her scarlet purse of dreams. SCHARMEL IRIS IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH It took the tenacity and spirit of thousands and thousands of women who worked in an unrelenting way... IRIS NELSON IRIS MURDOCH The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are th... IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance. IRIS JOHANSEN I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows. DONNIE IRIS IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH The lights are all out everywhere. IRIS CHENAULT IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicin... IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH These episodes of racism occur in cycles. IRIS CHANG Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minu... IRIS CHANG I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. IRIS CHANG Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, an... IRIS CHANG The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s... IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years. IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereb... IRIS JOHANSEN IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH ...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. L... IRIS ANTHONY IRIS MURDOCH As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice. IRIS CHANG IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH IRIS MURDOCH Where you are,there I'll be.Make up your mind to it.You may not love me now bt you will.I'll see to ... IRIS JOHANSEN People were worried; they thought we were going to go to nuclear war when there was a conflict with ... IRIS WEINSHALL We find stuff all the time, but what's sort of eerie about this is that this is a bridge that thousa... IRIS WEINSHALL In attempting to minimize congestion, perhaps we were more cautious than we should have been. IRIS WEINSHALL It's not like we're putting this on eBay. IRIS WEINSHALL
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely. 
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Rehvenge, I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.”
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... 
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I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening. 
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Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was al... 
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself. 
I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity. 
I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy. 
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. 
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. 
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. 