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Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction. -- Arthur Golden
Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not. -- Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha' is everything you'd expect it to be: beautiful, mesmerizing, tasteful, Japanese. It's just not very hot. -- Stephen Hunter
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that. -- Michelle Yeoh
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me. -- Arthur Golden
Every girl in the world should have geisha training -- Diana Vreeland
For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask. -- Zhang Ziyi
For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask. -- Zhang Ziyi
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. -- Arthur Golden
I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas. -- Zhang Ziyi
A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms. -- Arthur Golden
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. -- Arthur Golden
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. -- Arthur Golden
From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,. -- Zhang Ziyi
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. -- Ziyi Zhang
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. -- Ziyi Zhang
We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. -- Arthur Golden
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. -- Arthur Golden
The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training. -- Diana Vreeland
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. -- Arthur Golden
What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done? -- Arthur Golden
The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can't be expected to be taken that seriously. -- Karl Lagerfeld
A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence. -- Arthur Golden
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret. -- Arthur Golden
I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it. -- Colleen Atwood
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