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#affectations

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Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.


Dave Eggers


#dignity #dignity

Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?


Julian Fellowes


#actors #affectations #british #claudette-colbert #clichés

The girls were always running out of money, out of cash, precisely, to pay taxi drivers, train conductors, men who delivered pizzas after dark. They borrowed cash, normally, upon arrival. They borrowed passions—Wallace Stevens, Joseph Conrad, Mozart, hiking, the Bible—from each other, as girls of another generation borrowed clothes.


Renata Adler


#men






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