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• Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Sick, Disgusting, Staggering

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• For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Years, Crowds, Lasts

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• I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did - Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there.

  Tina Fey

  Bed, Guarantees, Birth

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.

  Jon Heder

  Mean, Looks, Suits

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• John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.

  Edward Abbey

  Passion, Beer, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]

  Danielle Steel

  San Francisco, Style, Dresses

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• I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.

  Ashley Benson

  Phases, Gothic, Edgy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Tattoo, Dream, Fashion

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• Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless self-revelation, and the coolness that comes with authenticity.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Honesty, Struggle

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• I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Sister, Thinking, Two

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Yesterday, Avant Garde, Today

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.418, Vintage

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• I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

  Georges Bizet

  Ideas, Pieces, Want

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• You do know when people say 'chic,' they mean thin.

  Carol Grace

  Mean, People, Weight

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• A handbag is only one item to be worn with a complete outfit. Add a peony pink leather handbag to a charcoal gray suit, for instance, and the impact is chic with a touch of wit.

  Kate Spade

  Impact, Suits, Add

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• Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.

  Patrick Dennis

  Mink, Burlap, Said

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• That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Years, Profound, Activist

  Source: time.com

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• My style is ghetto chic. I love tacky jewelry, mega heels, high-waisted shorts, catsuits.

  Jessie J

  Ghetto, Style, Tacky

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".

  Nan Goldin

  Clothes, Getting High, Heroin

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

  Margaret Atwood

  Men, Drunk, Reason

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Cat's Eye”, p.345, Hachette UK

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• It is impossible for a hatless woman to be chic.

  Emily Post

  Impossible

  EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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• My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Icons, People, Style

  "Albatross's Jessica Brown Findlay Talks Style & Kate Middleton: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW". Grazia Daily Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, "Did you fall?" He said, "No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket."

  Billy Connolly

  Fall, Chocolate, Pockets

  "Billy Connolly: An Audience with Billy Connolly". TV Special, October 26, 1985.

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• My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

  Eva Green

  Father, Classic, Pens

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• My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Mother, Clothes, Expectations

  "Designers Share Their Mother's Day Memories". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Beautiful, Interesting, Style

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