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Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.
Peter Bart
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I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.
Patrick Rothfuss
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The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band
Brian Eno
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'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.
Anurag Kashyap
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Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ... (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. ... In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.
Michael Dirda
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I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.
Enid Bagnold
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I like to touch things. In my house I have a lot of velvet drapes and thick, lush couches.
Tom Sizemore
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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.
Robin Hobb
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I certainly know the difference between right and wrong.
Robert De Niro
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If you choose to do something, do it with your utmost. And remember, expect nothing and life will be velvet.
Lisa Gardner
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I do a cover of a Velvet Underground song, and they were one of the most important bands, for me.
Martin Gore
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You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.
Sarah MacLean
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I did have Skidz overalls. Remember Skidz, those baggy plaid pants that look like pajamas? So I did rock overalls, but not in purple velvet. I couldn't find those.
Patrick Wilson
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I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.
Courtney Love
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I knew about things like Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground, weirdly, before I knew about David Bowie. I didn't know what David Bowie was, when I was a kid. I thought he was like Visage.
Stewart Lee
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Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface
Washington Irving
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As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice on me help me I am disintigrating.
Lynda Barry
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It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.
Sylvia Plath
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For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.
David F. Houston
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For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe.
Richard Bach
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Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.
Adyashanti
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I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground.
Martin Gore
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Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.
William Maxwell
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There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.
Eloisa James
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You might be a redneck if your favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.
Jeff Foxworthy
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When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me
Kyle MacLachlan
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Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band.
Brian Eno
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Dear Alec and Magnus, I known we're not really close, but Isabelle just came by to drop off a pleated orange velvet tux that she claims I will be wearing to your wedding. Is this true, and if so, why orange? -Simon
Cassandra Clare
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Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.
Lana Del Rey
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
Al Yankovic
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Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.
Margery Williams
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I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I amassed that I first kept in the lettuce crisper of a refrigerator in my basement.
Victoria Wilson
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Well,I hope you like the ring." He held it out to me, he velvet lid still closed. "My mom hates it." "I'm sure I'll love it,then," I said, and he laughed.
Amanda Hocking
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Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed.
Jerzy Buzek
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Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.
Alain de Botton
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He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.
Teresa Medeiros
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A naked blade sheathed in velvet, that was Raphael's voice.
Nalini Singh
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No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.
Ezra Koenig
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Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!
Anna Sui
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Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.
Rod Stewart