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Karen Karbo QUOTES

1 " A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. "

― Karen Karbo , Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

2 " Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck. "

― Karen Karbo , Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life

3 " Old age. I don't know when it really starts, and I'm not interested in finding out. Julia pretty much ignored the whole thing, and that may be the only real lesson there is for the end of our days. Just pretend like it isn't happening, until you have no choice but to accept reality. If you're lucky, like Julia, you'll die peacefully in your sleep after having enjoyed a dinner of onion soup. "

― Karen Karbo , Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life

4 " How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. "

― Karen Karbo , Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

5 " Once in a great while, she was distressed by the way she looked. As she was rounding the bend to forty she would write to Avis DeVoto that whenever she read Vogue she "felt like a frump....but I suppose that is the purpose of all of it, to shame people out of their frumpery so they will go out and buy 48 pairs of red shoes, have a facial, pat themselves with deodorizers, buy a freezer, and put up the new crispy window curtains with a draped valence."
Julia was able to deconstruct the disingenuous motives that drive women's magazines with the ease she normally reserved for deboning a duck, seeing quite clearly that while ostensibly offering inspiration and useful advice, the stories and articles quietly pummel the reader's sense of self, the better to drive her into the arms of the advertisers. "

― Karen Karbo , Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life

6 " Coco a spus, când vorbesc despre eleganță, vorbesc despre lux. Luxul trebuie să rămână invizibil, dar trebuie să se simtă. Luxul este simplu; este opusul complicației.
Luxul este o necesitate care începe acolo unde se sfârșesc necesitățile.
Unii oameni cred că luxul este opusul sărăciei. Nu este așa. El este opusul vulgarității. Luxul este opusul prestigiului. "

― Karen Karbo , Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

7 " Franțuzoaicele sunt renumite pentru lipsa lor de interes pentru prietene. Ele iubesc bărbații, iar femeile reprezintă concurența și, prin urmare, nu poți avea încredere în ele. "

― Karen Karbo , Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

8 " Years later, when Julia was famous she would often receive letters from people who asked not simply how they might learn to cook. They already knew the answer: The owned her cookbooks, but they were yearning to know how they might become passionate about it. She always answered the same thing: Go to France and eat. "

― Karen Karbo , Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life

9 " These days, we've gotten incredibly fussy. With our personal playlists, our complicated made-to-order half-caf, half-decaf lattes, our special mattresses that can adjust for each sleeper, our individually designed college curriculums, we've gotten out of the habit of making do with what's at hand. Part of living with abandon is giving oneself over to one's circumstances without any expectation that things are going to be to our liking anytime soon. We can hope that things will improve, but it shouldn't prevent us from doing what we've set out to do. Julia had an astonishing capacity to be content with what was in front of her, whether it be a cooking school run on spit and a string or a less than perfect hunk of meat. She made do and moved on and rarely regretted it. "

― Karen Karbo , Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life

10 " Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death. "

― Karen Karbo , Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life

11 " ...behind every Guide Michelin chef there was a woman, usually a four foot cataract-ridden old granny from whom he'd filched his best recipes. "

― Karen Karbo , Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life

12 " Să îmbrățișezi trăsăturile definitorii ale regiunii în care te-ai născut este o formă de apartenență la o familie extinsă, dar fără obligațiile uzuale. Este un mod de a aparține unui grup, fără să se aștepte de la tine să faci vizite de Crăciun. "

― Karen Karbo , Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

13 " There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit... "

― Karen Karbo , Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

14 " ...Chanel didn't start out with a mission statement, nor a corporate vision, nor a roadmap for success, nor timeline for achieving her goals, nor an action item list, nor any of those other high-falutin' concepts we associate with mega modern multinational success stories. "

― Karen Karbo , Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

15 " Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it. "

― Karen Karbo , How to Hepburn: Lessons on Living from Kate the Great

16 " Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. Luxury is the opposite of status. It is the ability to make a living by being oneself. It is the freedom to refuse to live by habit. Luxury is liberty. Luxury is elegance. "

― Karen Karbo , Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

17 " A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading. "

― Karen Karbo , How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living

18 " Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure. "

― Karen Karbo , How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living

19 " O'Keefe is the poster child for doing exactly what you want, in the service of an abiding passion. "

― Karen Karbo , How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living

20 " Julia arrived at “just do it” as a personal credo long before Nike snapped it up. Nothing anyone thought about her could stop her. Imagine a life in which you’re never too anything for anything. Never too old to go back and get that degree. Never too uncoordinated to cut loose on the dance floor. Never too wrong-of-body to wear that swimsuit and throw yourself into the waves. "

― Karen Karbo , Julia Child Rules: Lessons on Savoring Life