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In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake, like in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Faux fur is great because it shows people that faux can look fabulous. -- Kristen Johnston
I love rhinestones, faux jewelry. -- Adriana Trigiani
I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes. -- Leigh Lezark
I'd love to say fashion faux pas differ from country to country, but they don't. -- Trinny Woodall
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. -- Dennis Lehane
Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones. -- Linda Evangelista
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There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter. -- Bill Keller
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in. -- Wilson Mizner
We cannot consume our way into personal growth. Yet, millions of us have bought into this cynical concept of faux identity. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head. -- Edith Head
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate. -- Dennis Prager
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. -- John Oliver
I wouldn't call it a faux pas, but I have about 12 tracksuits. I always travel in a tracksuit. I feel it makes people happy when they see me. -- Jenny Lewis
I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs. -- Bonnie Hunt
It was the Obama administration that cut a faux deal with the Iranians that will not disarm Iran of its nuclear capabilities, and will in fact accelerate their nuclear development. -- Ben Shapiro
If faux liberal white guys want to support and defend Obama, by all means please do so. But I would suggest they try to limit that support to matters of policy and not perspectives on race. -- John Ridley
A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double. -- Jennifer Tilly
I'm doing a pilot for Comedy Central with the band Steel Panther. They're faux heavy metal. They started as kind of a tribute band out here, or a cover band, and they're funny guys, and they just sort of morphed into their own thing. -- Brian Posehn
Barack Obama has brought glamour back to American politics - not the faux glamour-by-association of campaigning with movie stars or sailing with the Kennedys, but the real thing. The candidate himself is glamorous. Audiences project onto him the personal qualities and political positions they want in a president. -- Virginia Postrel
Vaults and caskets are not the law; they are the policy of individual cemeteries. Vaults prevent the settling of the dirt around the body, thus making landscaping more uniform and cost effective. As an added bonus, vaults can be customized and sold at a markup. Faux marble? Bronze? Take your pick, family. -- Caitlin Doughty
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself. -- John Oliver
But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you're doing it on the red carpet, you're doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera. -- AnnaLynne McCord
I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that there's something going on that we need to tap into - are artifacts, or symptoms of living in this atemporal reality. And it's not any worse than living in the 'time is money' reality that we're leaving. -- Douglas Rushkoff
My biggest faux pas is not giving time for myself. -- Donna Karan
Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits. -- Richard Overy
A fashion faux pas is what happens when you're not confident with yourself. -- Loulou de la Falaise
to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world. -- Florence King
We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media. -- Toni Morrison
I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua. -- David Bowie
She still felt like a punked-out, faux-leather-wearing, free-thinking Bratz doll in a sea of Pretty Princess of Preppyland Barbies. -- Sara Shepard
Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration. -- Camille Paglia
There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men. -- David Gordon Green
I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad. -- Joe Jonas
Selfridges' Christmas hot list includes faux fur animal hats by Merrimaking, currently enjoying a cult status in Japan and amongst festival goers. -- Geraldine James
Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it. -- Rockmond Dunbar
Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas. -- Ricky Gervais
The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality. -- Criss Jami
I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I think the social faux par is probably what most people fear... more people fear public speaking than death and that's because we don't want to make a fool of ourselves. It's fundamental. -- Ricky Gervais
I stopped the blade two inches before it touched Andrea's neck. Because she was my best friend, and sticking knives into your best friend's windpipe was generally considered to be a social faux pas. -- Ilona Andrews
From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies! -- Anna Sui
The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes. -- Frank Schaeffer

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