Rona Jaffe quotes

“A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.”
-- Rona Jaffe

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“almost all American writers tend to overwrite, to tell too much. I get the disillusioned feeling that novels, today, are sold by the pound, like groceries. It actually takes a great deal more discipline to be able to leave out rather than to throw in everything. This means that you have to say in one sentence precisely what you mean, instead of saying sort of what you kind of mean in hundreds of sentences and hoping the sum total will add up.”
-- Rona Jaffe

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“boredom has a tendency to bring out the worst in people's faces.”
-- Rona Jaffe

Source : Rona Jaffe (2005). “The Best of Everything”, p.20, Penguin

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“Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but the pay packet on Friday and the booze-up last Saturday. Life's easy when you're a robot.”

“When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.”

“I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.”

Source : "Interview: Alexa Chung covers our spring fashion issue". Interview with Rachel LeWinter, www.timeout.com. March 11, 2013.

“I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.”

Source : "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty review - superficially magnificent" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2015.

“I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.”

“The man is United - cut him and he bleeds red”

“I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.”

“I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.”

“It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.”

Source : "Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part One". Interview with Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.”