- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Assumed Quotes
What we take for granted, questioned.
These lines explore how a single visit can undo a long-held assumption, like picturing an entire country from one coastal town before ever seeing its capital city.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility, manners, beauty - qualities that black people were always trying to prove they possessed, because it was often assumed that we didn't.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so surprised, astonished, when I lost my mind, because I didn't think that I ever would. I assumed I would always be just fine.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was discovered by anyone, it would be Stephen O'Neil, who saw me in a play at Williamstown and introduced me to my team who I'm still with today. He was the first person to introduce me to the film and TV world. Other than that, I just assumed I would be a theater actor my whole life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this drive to prove people wrong - people who thought I should give up or assumed I'd never get anywhere.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gained this new sense of control over my love life because when I called myself a 'man repeller,' you assumed that being single is my choice. I'm man-repelling because that's how I want to dress. I'm not single because no men like me. I'm single because I choose fashion over a relationship.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020