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  • Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk to each other we never actually explain our terms. We don't say 'Sweetheart, would you pass me the sugar bowl, which we picked up for a song at that antique stall in Munich.'

    Song   Writing   People  
  • I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.

    Mom   Military   Book  
    "A Day Out With The Middle Kids". Interview with Ingela Ratledge, www.tvguide.com. February 8, 2012.
  • They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to have a degree. And thus the world was deprived of some excellent gardeners, bakers, antique dealers, sculptors, and writers.

    Order   Important   World  
  • Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

    Character   Mean   Views  
    William Golding (2013). “Moving Target”, p.15, Faber & Faber
  • I had a big fight about how to make something come into the real, to make it physical. It sounds really antique, but it's a question of, how do I make this idea happen? You can't just will it into existence. You have to educate, you have to persuade, you have to seduce, you have to do all this stuff to make something three-dimensional and happen. It's not just a concept. It's actually a reality.

    Real   Fighting   Ideas  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's in my office, and it has watched over each of the fifteen books I've written. It also helped me find my wife.

    Book   Wife   Office  
    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you can get to the bargains before them.

  • And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

    Summer   Dream   Sight  
    'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125
  • I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

  • When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

  • Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

    Light   Shining   World  
    Paul Gauguin (1920). “Noa Noa”, p.65, Courier Corporation
  • Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

    Land   Antiques   Buying  
  • My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired it very vibrant colors and - bugs I think that they're pretty. And I think that they're fascinating and they're natural.

    Thinking   Color   House  
  • If you're a man and you've ever been antique shopping during a big football game, you're either gay or married.

    Football   Gay   Games  
    Audio CD "Have Your Loved Ones Spayed and Neutered", 2004.
  • There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 01, 2016
  • (Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.

  • I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.

    Flower   Home   Want  
  • When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it.

    Special   Antiques   Want  
  • I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

  • Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

  • He may not see the King's antique apparel on kids in the Hall, but he does feel a tinge of nostalgia. The amount of teens wearing the Led Zeppelin '77 tour T-shirts walking around the Rock Hall is absurd. Absurd, ... I saw them on that tour and didn't even buy a shirt. It tells you what these kids feel about music. People take music very seriously.

    Kings   Kids   Rocks  
  • You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

    Ted Hughes (2011). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, p.22, Faber & Faber
  • Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

    Couple   Party   Gay  
    "In This Month's OFM". www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.
  • O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having. . . .

    Fashion   Art   Men  
    'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 56
  • This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.

    Secret   World   Antiques  
  • I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.

    May   Antiques   Stones  
  • I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.

    Morocco   Barns   Pottery  
  • She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.

    Song: She Belongs To Me, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965
  • I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

    "Erin Wasson on Her Hair, Antique Shopping, and Cooking". Interview with Leah Melby Clinton, www.elle.com. September 20, 2012.
  • My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

    Girl   Mom   House  
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