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«Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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against, assert, asserted, asserts, commonplace, commonplaces, creatures, Dare to Be Different, daring, different, imaginative, impractical, integrity, in ordinary, ordinary, play, purpose, slaves, slaving, The Creatures, the play, vision
«All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left»
«More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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Against A, apricot, azure, Gold and Silver, islands, shades, The Peninsula, turquoise, varied
«San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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All American, cities, European, Francisco, San, San Francisco
«What is elegance? Soap and water!»
«Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.»
«Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
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abiding, airline, airlines, comforting, purely, replaces
«I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
| Keywords:
dress circle, evening dress, stage set
«Oh, well, he couldn't do everything, could he?»
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